I was exploring an obscure Linux distro when I noticed they’re contact page had an IRC client. You can connect to the IRC via Matrix, but the people there prefer pure IRC.

My question is do other programmers use IRC? Also why?

  • vonbaronhans@midwest.social
    31·
    11 months ago

    Man I grew up in the age of forums, and I never got the hang of em. Just felt like the design goals were wasted negative space and the purposeful inability to know who is responding to whom.

    There’s a lot of forum fans, so there must be some appeal, but fuck me if I can ascertain what that might be.

    I never did any IRC, though I wonder if I’d known it at the time if I might’ve gotten into it.

    • ericjmorey@programming.dev
      1·
      11 months ago

      Discourse seems to have addressed a lot of that. But it seems wasted.space is valued with the bubble chat style interfaces I’m seeing a lot of.