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EFnet announced that the server (eris.Berkeley.EDU) that caused the original IRC network to split back in 1990 ("The Great Split") has rejoined the network. Because of this EFnet (Eris-Free Network) changed its name to "Eris Network", or ErisNet.
eris.Berkeley.EDU is once again serving IRC clients (on ports 6667, 6668 or 6697, 9999 for SSL), thanks to UC Berkeley OCF.
See the news post about this change on http://www.erisnet.org/erisnet_pressrelease.pdf
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(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @09:59AM (13 children)
People still use irc? Wow, just wow.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Monday April 02 2018, @10:08AM (4 children)
Those who want non-surveillance social media do.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @11:19AM (2 children)
Do you honestly think they're not recording irc chats as well?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @12:33PM
SN already records it's IRC chats -- see the logs, conveniently arranged in date order.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @07:10PM
They're not recording the chats on my private server.
Maybe. Probably. And covfefe for good measure.
I should probably tighten my tinfoil and assume Linode is, in fact, recording the chats on the server I rent from them.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by J_Darnley on Monday April 02 2018, @01:12PM
More like those who want federated, open protocols do. Many open source projects have busy IRC channels. Piracy is still available on some networks through DCC.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Monday April 02 2018, @02:08PM (6 children)
Lol, yea. What a bunch of old fags. I mean, who would want to use a proven free chat protocol with dozens of cross platform clients that's not controlled by a single for-profit company?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 02 2018, @03:54PM (5 children)
Spellcheck needed. I think it's "oldfag" and "newfag", without spaces. With the spaces, you might be talking about any old fag on the street. Without spaces, you're talking about gamers, nerds, techies, etc, who generally are sexless anyway. Maybe we should check with 4chan?
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday April 02 2018, @04:11PM
I suppose that makes me the oldfag then.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @07:13PM (3 children)
Remember when /b/ used to be good?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 02 2018, @09:36PM (2 children)
/b/ was never good. 4chan was never good. Think about the kind of people who would start a place like that.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday April 02 2018, @10:24PM (1 child)
It should serve the same purpose as Alcatraz, Sing-Sing, or Congress: a warning for the kids, about the worst of humanity.
Sadly, the parallel works with Congress: someone forgot to properly declaw the 4chan bastards.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 03 2018, @02:41AM
So what does that make 8chan, the internet equivalent of MS-13?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @02:23PM
We have a bunch of sites spread across the southeastern USA, most with 2 or 3 dozen employees, one with 200 employees, and a bunch of smaller sites. We keep our normal computers off the internet, using an encrypted VPN to link up the sites.
IRC is really the main thing. There is also email, video conferencing, VoIP phones, a wiki, and so on... but IRC is really how people keep in touch. At the largest site, IRC is damn useful within the building. The building is too big and convoluted to go find people, and anyway we get input from the other sites if we use IRC.
Hosted software-as-a-service stuff would not be private to our VPN. It would expose us to security trouble. Lots of IRC alternatives are not cross-platform; we aren't a Windows shop.