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I started working on Halloy back in 2022, with the goal of giving something back to the community I’ve been a part of for the past two decades. I wanted to create a modern, multi-platform IRC client written in Rust.

Three years later, I’ve made new friends who have become core contributors, and there are now over 200 people idling in our #halloy channel on Libera.

My hope is that this client will outlive me and that IRC will live on.

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Vaslo ◴[] No.45591858[source]
Not sure if this question will get removed but a tangent nonetheless - I’d like to use this but I don’t know what to do with it since the advent of Discord. What do people do with IRC now and where do you find content?

I remember being a high school student and having an amazing physics conversation on IRC that included a description of Flatworld that really fascinated me.

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1. neilv ◴[] No.45595694[source]
> I’d like to use this but I don’t know what to do with it since the advent of Discord. What do people do with IRC now and where do you find content?

IRC is for people to whom the word "content" sounds right out of Idiocracy. :)

I wouldn't go poking around IRC today looking for random passive content consumption. There's more of that pretty much everywhere else on the Internet.

Go to IRC, in a goal-directed way, if an open source project you use is OG enough to have an IRC channel (rather than a open source backsliding Discord) that you want to access.

If you're involved in IT incident response for a company, there is a chance that running a simple private IRC server that's entirely separate from all your other infrastructure is useful. You'll need to make sure ahead of time that everyone who needs to access it urgently, when everything else is blowing up, will be able to.

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2. Vaslo ◴[] No.45597074[source]
So are you implying I’m some fool out of idiocricy? I don’t get your comment?
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3. neilv ◴[] No.45599140[source]
It's a very common term now, and no fault of anyone for using it.

But it was introduced in its current sense (not in the protocol sense) by cynical and greedy exploiters, who spoiled much of the goodness of the Internet.

So when a random person casually says something like "consume content", unironically, it's like saying, "it's got what plants crave...".