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  • I am such a fan of minimal, text-forward, straight to the point website designs like this. I feel like it makes it easier to quickly determine whether the text content is worth reading.
    by javanissen
  • > it's made with gawk.

    gawk is always best when served live.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXHuygyyulE&t=53s

    by neilv
  • Given the source isn't released, how about an IRCd in bash: https://github.com/dgl/bash-ircd
    by dgl
  • Sadly it seems like it is down

        Connected to example.fi.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    /home/example/services/ircd/ircd.sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
    by stevekemp
  • A couple decades ago I remember somebody using awk in programming competitions, as a stunt, and doing surprisingly well. For tasks involving text processing it has a huge advantage, and it ends up doing ok with other stuff.
    by epistasis
  • I've heard IRC servers jokingly referred to as "layer 7 multicast routers."
    by userbinator
  • Seeing hexchat always gives me a pang of nostalgia for hours spent as a teen on various IRC channels. I know that even if I went back to some of those servers I wouldn't be able to recapture the same "magic" since it was primarily the people there (and besides, those people are largely reachable on slightly more modern services these days), but I do miss the simplicity of IRC as a protocol and the massive variety of clients and interfaces.

    Maybe matrix will recapture some of that platform-agnosticism? I haven't used it in a while and the general sentiment around the protocol seems vaguely negative these days (at least in channels like HN).

    by jsmailes
  • IRC is having its second wind as far as I can tell. Libera is very active and it offers an experience that is unlike the over-stimulating chat apps like discord.

    Some projects have both a discord and an IRC channel and when you compare the two chats the conversations are wildly different — IRC being a more focused, on topic chat without floods of gifs, emojis, and off-topic channels.

    The hardest part about using IRC is getting chat history and mobile notifications. As part of https://pico.sh we run a soju bouncer (soju.im) for our members to use to help with that. We have a bunch of daily active users.

    by qudat

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