[sidek]

I miss IRC deeply. We had an internet with an amazing, people-run, free, chat network.

And we replaced it with corporate things like facebook messenger/discord where you're the product.

[qplex]

I find the modern (free) alternatives are more reliable.

No more netsplits. I can't remember the last time I couldn't send a message because of a technical reason.

But I do miss the culture of the old net and IRC. These days only small islands of it remain.

[Seirdy]

If you're looking for rooms with high activity, I put together a list of the top 30 busiest IRC channels I'm in by sorting my logs by size (descending) [0].

The command that generated the list:

  grep -v -c '(\-\->.*has joined|<--.*has left).*#' $WEECHAT_HOME/logs/irc.*.[#]*.weechatlog \
   | tr ':' ' ' \
   | sort -n -k 2 -r \
   | sed -e 's#.*irc\.##' -e 's#\.weechatlog##' \
   | grep -v "#channel-i'd-rather-not-show" \
   | sed 30q \
   | curl -F 'clbin=<-' https://clbin.com

[0]: https://clbin.com/9fcdI

Archived paste: https://archive.li/4OMf3 and https://web.archive.org/web/20200215033709/https://clbin.com...

[Seirdy]

Addendum: kichimi on rizon.\#rice has just reached out in response to this comment:

  2020-02-15 06:55:32 kichimi that post
  2020-02-15 06:55:35 kichimi was made by you
  2020-02-15 06:55:40 kichimi and i wanted to say hi
  2020-02-15 06:55:45 Seirdy hai
  2020-02-15 06:55:51 kichimi because i love seeing rizon repped
  2020-02-15 06:56:00 kichimi but you didnt put a disclaimer in your post saying rizon was the most toxic network on the internet

[TheReverend403]

> but you didnt put a disclaimer in your post saying rizon was the most toxic network on the internet

We're not all assholes. Just most of us.