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pointless bump
hey i heard there is a #Games channel!!!
Races
Rusian Roulette
Texas
UNO
DuckHunt
TicTacToe
GuessNumber
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[23:19.13] -de.lowendirc.com- de.lowendirc.com ----------- | Users: 49 (47.57%)
[23:19.13] -de.lowendirc.com- |-nl.lowendirc.com --------- | Users: 43 (41.75%)
[23:19.13] -de.lowendirc.com- `-us.lowendirc.com --------- | Users: 4 ( 3.88%)
[23:19.13] -de.lowendirc.com- 4 servers and 103 users, average 25.75 users per server
[23:19.13] -de.lowendirc.com- End of /MAP
Its dead, its so fucking over.
make a matrix, irc is too much
Cool
xmpp is the way to go tbh.
IRC has been dead for 2 decades at least, and XMPP also
Wouldn't it be easier to create a group in Telegram? IRC in 2025? LOL
Even I, a 40-year-old man who has been on the Internet since 1996, cannot understand this.
What's so hard about going to the web app https://webchat.lowendirc.com? It's a PWA so you can even install it like an app by clicking "Install lowendIRC" from the address bar of Chromium based browsers.
I don't think the problem is IRC, the problem is nobody is talking lol.
Sad but true
/me slaps <something> around a bit with a large troutOh my God, so I really don't understand something
In Russia, all online communication has long been transferred to telegram, which is convenient, there are clients on the phone, on the PC and in the browser. And the last time I used irc was in 2008)
Personally, there's not much on IRC for me other than to keep in touch with some of my friends who have been around since the 90s and early 2000s.
They administer most of these networks so they pop in from time to time to chat.
I know a lot of "older" devs they want only irc as chat.
Just setup an irc bot bridge
so, are we going IRC?
so whats the diff between talking there or here?
how can I get a cloak?
You are too young
/msg hostserv help
Quick stats:
Channel #General
)
https://general.webirc.org/
(updated every 15 minutes - as if it matters
Channel #idle
https://idle.webirc.org/
(and as expected, stats almost empty, for those who enjoy silence)
Also, don't forget that you can visit us via https://webchat.lowendirc.com.
No registration or anything required.
So much for IRC privacy - gone.
By the way, the IRC network doesn't log anything like that. Any IRC client (what we would now call an "app'") or bot (an Eggdrop in this case) can log public channels. That's part of IRC folklore.
Create #default or /join #whatever, and you will have your privacy as long as you're alone on the channel or with people you fully trust (which should be no one at IRC).
Exactly. IRC is designed to be private. We all love privacy. With that in mind, you wish to attract people from a public forum onto an IRC network, and yet you display the fact that you keep track of conversations and logs within your main channels. Good luck with your trust mechanism I guess.
I still use it daily.
Isn’t IRC a privacy nightmare like IPs visible to each other and admins and whatnot by default ?
IRC is designed to be private? Nah, IRC's design has nothing to do with privacy. Zero. Nada. Zilch. That's a nowadays myth. A stupid one.
Not a single RFC mentions this. Logging functionality is even implemented in most clients. mIRC, for example, has had it since 1995. If you're on the same channel with other people or in a public conversation, you should always assume that their IRC client logs your conversation. This is a standard feature of most IRC clients.
On the other hand, you can always open your own channel, and from then it's a simple... Either you trust the people you invite to your channel, or you don't. And yes, it's stupid if you do. It's IRC, for Christ's sake!
Besides that, you're mixing things up. An IRC network/server is not the same as an individual IRC channel. Anyone can open their own IRC channel (IRC room) with their own rules.
IRC networks, IRC administration, etc., don't log those things. It's the users, or more specifically, their IRC clients (the numerous different programs individuals use to connect to IRC) that do. Some even log by default. You can always create your own channel and decide what to do with it and who to invite. It’s really simple...
Will @Calin allowed to post deals there?
Fuck that was a long time ago.
Dude. Get your shit straight. On one side you say IRC has nothing to do with privacy, on the other I am mixing things up because IRC is designed to be private by default. Servers can have logs only if the admins configure it in such a way - this is valid not just for IRC, but anything.
With regards to clients, any client can make logs, whether it is IRC, WhatsApp, Signal, or any other piece of software which displays text on a screen. Even a script kiddie knows that.
You displayed links to logs of channels made on purpose by staff there to brag about it. Congratulations! You have activity! But I stand by my point on how this defeats privacy, not because clients can log it, but because staff did and on top of it: made such info public. At this point one might just use a public forum - at least their comments contribute to search engines.
Apart from the oldest still existing IRC networks (IRCnet and EFnet), modern IRCds (like UnrealIRCd used by LowEndIRC) mostly cloak user hosts.
A channel op (operator, moderator...) is just an ordinary IRC visitor who cannot see more than any other visitors. Only the server administrator can see IP addresses, and that's it - similar to how forums operate for example.
As a visitor, you can park a bot (like Eggdrop or any other) in a public channel or enable logging in your own IRC client. This means you will log the channels you're parked on and potentially your own private conversations, but there won't be any real IPs (except on IRCnet and EFnet - oldest still active IRC networks), as they are not visible to you or your bot.