I still enjoy bouncing in and out of the programming rooms on freenode - the Lisp peeps are super nice and happy to explain stuff.
And whenever I did Rust in always had the official IRC channels open. But they're all being shut down âšī¸.
IRC's abandonment by the community is a crying shame. People have exchanged an open standard for the ability to share cat GIFs and emoji reactions. People have, once again, disappointed me.
IRC's abandonment by the community is a crying shame.
First I've heard of any wholesale abandonment. (Or did you mean Rust only?) Some projects have dropped IRC, but many others just use bots to bridge the chat platforms. The largest communities are still there! Freenode IRC's #python and #ubuntu, and OFTC's #debian are just three examples of the core of the community living on IRC.
I guess it's a bit like Usenet now; still very much alive and well, but mostly occupied by people who aren't obsessed with shiny new tech. ;)
By the way, the unofficial ##rust is still there, no doubt occupied by the refugees from #rust. That's how things go on IRC!
I still enjoy bouncing in and out of the programming rooms on freenode - the Lisp peeps are super nice and happy to explain stuff.
And whenever I did Rust in always had the official IRC channels open. But they're all being shut down âšī¸.
IRC's abandonment by the community is a crying shame. People have exchanged an open standard for the ability to share cat GIFs and emoji reactions. People have, once again, disappointed me.
First I've heard of any wholesale abandonment. (Or did you mean Rust only?) Some projects have dropped IRC, but many others just use bots to bridge the chat platforms. The largest communities are still there! Freenode IRC's
#pythonand#ubuntu, and OFTC's#debianare just three examples of the core of the community living on IRC.I guess it's a bit like Usenet now; still very much alive and well, but mostly occupied by people who aren't obsessed with shiny new tech. ;)
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##rustis still there, no doubt occupied by the refugees from#rust. That's how things go on IRC!My kinda town đ
Good news - XMPP is a perfectly good open standard for exchanging cat GIFs, and we are working hard to providing emoji reactions, too.
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