anyone have any tips on getting into IRC? it looks pretty interesting and i wanted to know more before i dive in.
>inb4 google.
i want to hear about real peoples experience and personal suggestions
It's just a chat program. But most people idle.
The only time I use it is for interviews.
>seek out a channel relevant to my interests or that might help with a technical problem I'm having
>all 20 users are idling or completely ignore me when I talk
bad experience desu, I would only use it for downloads and interviews.
so... its dead?
>>80952
vector.im is much better.
>>80952
Search rooms by number of users in it. There's usually like 2 or 3 rooms on a server with people talking. I'm usually on efnet and there's like at least 5 rooms that are busy at any given moment.
>>80952
Some sites still host them for their users
Many generals from /vg/ use it for a more anonymous approach compared to other IMing programs
>>80952
People use it to share files; that's the only thing I've ever used it for. Haven't done that for a couple years though.
>>80997
and now pomf.cat is usually used for that