Is IRC Getting Smaller?

AdamShort · Newbie Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 71

man, we are wasting our time on mirc, because 1. like DevilDecay Said, Everyone is breaking off to make their own server, and. well its what, 1/10bill servers out there? and whats the chance of them all linking together? maybe here and there? but half the generation is alot smaller then it was what 5-10 years ago? im sorry to say that soon irc's will disappear and fade. Kids that are turning 20 when our childrens, childrens children come, will look at it like, omg wtf is irc? so, basically we will lose it. if you catch my drift, look at it now, u hardly see a 13 year old on mirc, if that, its all the ones 18+

Drakx · Lurker Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 139

AdamShort · Newbie Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 71

well, then there you go, irc is slowly but surely disappearing, it was our generations fun, now there are other things, ie: shoutcast and other crap like that

PingBad · Guru Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 2007 Location: New Zealand

AdamShort · Newbie Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 71

lol wanna know something thats weird? same convo happend to me the other day in wal-mart, i hard teens saying shit like that, i almost had the nerve to say look thats not what mirc is. so get a life and read waht it says about it, but we shall see what happends to irc shall we?

[Rav3n]__ · Lurker Joined: 16 Apr 2006 Posts: 223

IRC has been dying since like 1998. i remeber when i chatted on dalnet there were like 20 servers now they are down to like 10. Chatnet is another net that was nice and now has gone downhill. People need to stop ddosing people over small issues and let bigones be bigones. I wish IRC was like it was back in 1995 Very Happy

AdamShort · Newbie Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 71

lol, i have some thoughts about that ddosing crap. if you 1. dont piss ppl off and threaten them they wont attack, 2. dont spam servers on others net. cuz u have no clue if they are gonna do crap back, this is irc, ppl will find you no matter what. its called life, nobodys perfect so act your age not ur freaking shoe size

ircmojo · Posted: Sep 01, 2007 11:33am Post subject:

AdamShort · Newbie Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 71

dang thats sad.

Mary · SearchIRC Admin Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 692

As I recall, DALnet was split apart BY warez channels who were waging war against each other. Get rid of warez, get rid of attacks on the network servers. It worked. But the damage was done. DALnet was unusable for so long, many channels migrated to other networks or (as was the case with many warez channels) had enough users to start their own network. That time in DALnet's history definitely contributed to the growth in the number of IRC networks.

Xaphan · Newbie Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 60

something that should have happened a long time ago.

Close the source on IRC. That way no teenieboppers and immature admins would be around. Those that could code, could build their ircd and run their network. Those who couldn't, pay for it or live without.

This is what we call, adding chlorine to the gene pool of irc.

kinda like dropping a nuclear warhead over a region of dickheads....clensing the gene pool :p

Jobe · Posted: Sep 21, 2007 12:09pm Post subject:

Problem there is that, that conflicts with some of the core principals or what IRC is. So it's unlikly to ever happen.

mage · Newbie Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 53

In my opinion I think that the IRC communities are still the same, sort of, roughly the same number. Thing is that the internet population grew (expectedly) in the last 7 years and these newcomers aren't very fond of irc chat.

shaneeh · none Joined: 07 Oct 2007 Posts: 14

Irc is still good to talk about very special things, such as if you want to meet other programmers.
It`s also good to find things like clanwars.
Sadly and truly it`s used to leech warez without taking much risk.
Most people I meet on reallife who know internet don`t know what irc is about.
Irc or it`s clients, whatever. Both missed to develop "cool features".
Currently "hot" things are websites such as youtube.com, web 2.0 communitys, rapidshare.com, "cool" messengers such as skype.
Complicated things are unwanted today. People want everything in their native language, it must work out of the box without thinking, no things like missconfigured routers must be managed without user input by the software. Irc is outdated now, it`s just a recess.
On irc the popular clients can`t stream things, you can`t even post pictures or sounds. It`s server-based, today peer to peer technologies are better for streaming and sharing.

PingBad · Guru Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 2007 Location: New Zealand