Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
Every day,<p>It's become a social network of sorts for geeks, despite the age of the protocol I still find it the least "invasive" and most friendly experience, but that's probably because I spent the time configuring a client that's nice for me. (preview: <a href="http://imgs.fyi/img/9ve2.png" rel="nofollow">http://imgs.fyi/img/9ve2.png</a> )<p>I run a network even, called darkscience and it's available at irc.darkscience.net (TLS only on port 6697) the lobby is #darkscience<p>ircs://irc.darkscience.net:6697/#darkscience (for those that can parse the url!).<p>Everyone here is welcome to join us of course, but we put a high emphasis on civility.