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From: Emanuel B. <in...@da...> - 2022-06-30 10:23:20
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Dave Horsfall wrote: >> I think this is a mistyping of IRC - Internet Relay Chat, >> a chat tool that was used extensively by Noah but not so >> much since the 17th century ?. Hence the "Ha-ha" comment >> it received. > > Indeed But actually IRC isn't dead at all, there are currently 43 979 users globally (on 22 529 channels) on Libera.chat - use the /motd command - Libera, which today is the IRC network of the FOSS world. There are just 16 users on #gnuplot tho. The most 10 most popular channels are 2078 #linux 1820 #libera 1776 #fedora 1606 #python 1491 #kde_ru 1401 #archlinux 1394 #archlinux-cn 1204 #archlinux-cn-offtopic 1002 #neovim 907 #ansible > unless the messages are archived then it's useless. But that's super easy! The IRC clients can do logging so you just do that and then rsync the logs to the web pile. https://libera.chat/ -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal |