Anything new?

myk3 · none Joined: 06 Feb 2008 Posts: 10

Is there anything new happening in the world of irc lately? I'm not ranting or preaching or anything, I'm just curious if there's any new ircd's or new different networks popping up anywhere

katsklaw · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1099

New networks pop up everyday. You should read: http://searchirc.com/boards/viewforum.php?f=23

New IRCd's would depend greatly when you last checked.

Jason · Posted: Apr 09, 2008 4:57pm Post subject:

tons of new networks always being added too:

http://searchirc.com/pending-networks.php

Wepa · none Joined: 17 Jun 2008 Posts: 23

yea ive seen alot of irc networks. actually every week there happens to be new ones and of course some IRC networks don't make it

dacayhero · Lurker Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 191

Yupp. Not Every IRC NetWork Can Be Successful

Rocinante · Posted: Jun 19, 2008 6:58am Post subject:

That really depends on whose definition of "successful" you use, and what that definition is. If you mean having many thousands of users, channels that are active and chatty 24/7, servers that never have issues on high bandwidth links, then yes I'd say most networks aren't successful.

For me, I'm more interested in quality than quantity. I have three servers in the network, and an average of 20 or so users right now. I chat with these people every day, at all hours of the day and night. I have other people who offer to link servers "to make the net bigger" which I find silly when the ratio of servers to users goes high, but some would say having others that want to link to you makes you successful. I think I'm successful because the network is always there, the people are always there, and I enjoy being there myself. If I never saw a global user count over 500 and the same people (or even some more) were still there chatting every day, I'd still call it successful.

So I'd venture to say that success is based on how you define it. There are many who would probably think I'm not successful because the user count is low, or the server count is low.. but I'm quite happy with the quality of people that I have, even if the quantity is not enormous.

greg27 · Lurker Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 152 Location: Australia

well said Rocinante, the quality of a network in no way depends upon the usercount or server count.

katsklaw · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1099

I agree, well said.

In reference to server count being low, it's actually the opposite, 3 servers for 20 users is rather high. Most ircd's can handle thousands of users each. Example, DALnet is currently configured in a manner that it can handle it's entire user load on 3 servers. In the late 90's they successfully handled 40,000 users on 1 single ircd and ran it for weeks and was stable to boot.

Granted, we all can't be like DALnet, but still most shells can handle 1024 connections and freebsd shells can handle more by default, Linux needs re-compiled to handle more.

With FreeBSD, my box can handle 11,000 connections without me even tinkering with it.

Anyway, back to the topic.

PingBad · Guru Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 2031 Location: New Zealand

Liam · Posted: Jun 23, 2008 10:19am Post subject:

Personally I don't care how many people come to my network. I run my network for friends to connect to and talk with me. I like to know the people that are on my network and so have a chat with them so I know who they are. It only matters really if there is activity and not how many chatters there are.

Stefano · Eleet Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 527 Location: Beirut

some irc news are posted on www.mircscripts.us or www.irc-junkie.org keep urself updated Smile

dacayhero · Lurker Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 191

Those sites barley update the news.

Leet · Newbie Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 68 Location: New York

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