Not that I’m complaining, I just find it kinda interesting given how so much stuff demands you sign up & register to do much of anything on a service or site.
Is it simply a cool cultural element that’s persisted since IRC’s been around? Also shoutout to all the old hat IRC folks out there maintaining their servers and enabling drop-in questions this way, much appreciated!
TIL,
Last time I went on IRC was more than 10 years ago, and it was already a bit “outdated nostalgia at the time”