Talk:IRC

message: Which countries use which networks the most?
Perhaps also user demographics? Mention how many open source hackers use IRC as a central point for instant chat  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.223.20.123 (talk) 21:45, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Demographics would be nice

message: I consider it to be the next generation IRC. What's the general consensus?    
Also, the article doesn't comment on what IRC is being replaced with (facebook, msn, et al) or its social impact (away from many-to-many chatrooms and into one-to-one chats), which fosters individuality as opposed to sociability  - if that makes any sense. Nor does it mention who is still using IRC (techies and weirdos - in a good way). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.60.3.245 (talk) 15:09, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I absolutely don't consider XMPP to be the "next generation IRC", since, first, it's generally construed as an IM protocol, not a group chat protocol (yes, I realize it can theoretically do both), and, second, it is not widely used in a direct way (as opposed to being the underlying protocol of proprietary services) and there's little indication that it is gaining ground and may reach IRC's level of recognition. At any rate, both your opinion and mine are our own, and any comparison must be done with reliable sources to back it. The same goes for comparisons with other, unrelated protocols, which also runs the risk of WP:COATRACK. LjL (talk) 15:43, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: XMPP

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message: I know virtually nothing about IRC, and after reading the article, I'm still a bit confused by a lot of the big picture questions.
I infer/assume that a network is composed of servers, and that channels are either local to a server (&) or span across the entire network (#).  Channels can not span networks, though (I'm unsure of this).  Clients themselves connect to a server, but the choice of server is mostly down to latency and server-only channels, as any server can access any network-wide channel in that network.
Is that right?
205.166.76.15 (talk) 22:45, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Channels are network-wide, but do not carry over into other networks. So, there is a #help on EFNet and another #help on Dalnet.  I'm presuming a bit much, but local channels are rare. The vast majority will be network-wide (#), so I wouldn't get bogged down on the local channels (&) which may only be in place for local IRCops.   Clients have a choice over what server they want to connect to. There are some round-robin domains that can connect to you a random EFNet server, for instance, but a client can pick from dozens of servers that are connect to the same network. If the server is too slow (latency), the client can stick it out or choose to switch to another server that may be faster. Rurik (talk) 23:55, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Some channels may be linked to several networks through the use of janus. For example, the same #net is available on irc.hackthissite.org and 2 other networks. But for the vast majority (~99.99%) of channels, they only exist on the network and are not inter network. <FONT COLOR ="#006600" SIZE="2PX">Netalarm</FONT> 10:24, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This has nothing to do with the actual IRC protocol, however. That is a client-side relay and not notable. TrbleClef ♮ (talk) 20:08, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Unclear how it all works

message: "as well as chat and data transfers via Direct Client-to-Client."
I don't really think thats a feature of IRC. The on DCC info sent through the IRC server is that someone wants to DCC you (which is done through a NOTICE) JV Smithy (talk) 00:47, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it's true that a "DCC CHAT" connection or a data connection for a file transfer is not itself using the IRC protocol, but then as I understand it the data connections in FTP don't use the FTP protocol either, so is it really that big of a deal? —SamB (talk) 20:30, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Direct Client to Client 

message: The article seems pretty light on the history of IRC, conspicuously lacking information about the original IRC network (EFnet), the significance of ircII (especially the 2.8.1 release).  I understand that finding reliable sources will be a challenge, though.  :(  //Blaxthos ( t / c ) 22:16, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: Can this section be tidied or clarified a little? In the 'User Modes' section, there are four modes which are 'Channel User Modes' (+q,+o,+h,+v), however +o and +v are also listed in the 'Channel Modes' section. 
Something else to note there, is that RFC 1459 does not contain the concept of a 'Channel Owner' (+q) or a 'Half-Op' (+h), so for factual accuracy these should be removed, or added to another small section of common non-rfc modes. FrostyCoolSlug (talk) 13:38, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: In addition, the RFC does not state that IRC Operators should have an & prefix. FrostyCoolSlug (talk) 13:46, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  SpigotMap 14:00, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Standard (RFC1459) modes Section 

message: Does IRC support images? Can images be transferred over IRC? Is support for display of images dependent on the client? -- Azemocram (talk) 23:52, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Transferring could be every file. if you can display inline images? Don't think that this is in the specs. Some clients create smilies out of the text-smilies. mabdul 13:57, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: Recently I had an incident of which I randomly joined the #freenode server. I was in chat when the #freenode server just came up. It happened about 6 times before I just left the server open. Can I get an elaboration? Tez011 (talk) 14:31, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Force join 

message: The word "opered" is jargon that is not explained, and its meaning is not entirely clear from context. In its first usage, it appears to be a typo for "opened." IAbookman (talk) 14:09, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear jargon 

message: An editor has suggested a link to the IRC-Galleria article ("the largest social networking website in Finland") be included in the See Also section of this article. I do not believe the link belongs here, any more than does, say, a link to 4chan or Facebook. Perhaps it should be listed on the IRC dab page (and it may be; I've not looked), but I do not believe it belongs in this article. 
I reverted the addition of the link for this reason. Does anyone have any thoughts on the matter? — UncleBubba ( T @ C ) 03:20, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  IRC-Galleria? 

message: An editor (the same one who tried to add IRC-Galleria to the EL list) has added an "over detailed" and "condense" tag to the beginning of this article. I disagree, but am not uninvolved, so I would like other opinions. 
This page attempts to cover a technical topic and has roughly the same number of sections and level of detail as do the HTTP and FTP pages. I don't see that as problematic. 
Anyone have any thoughts? — UncleBubba ( T @ C ) 14:28, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed the templates for the reasons stated above. — UncleBubba ( T @ C ) 14:34, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Over-detailed? 

message: The list of "Big Four" has changed. Now freenode has passed most networks from the old Big Four currently described. EFNet is way under freenode, Undernet, QuakeNet and IRCNet. So maybe we don't have a Big Five, but really a new Big Four with freenode instead of EFNet.
Then again, size measures are subjective and we would need references to support a current version. Is it worth it? I am on IRC 24/7 for years and I never heard of the "Big Four" except on Wikipedia. Is it a useful, known concept that is worth covering here? --Chealer (talk) 17:09, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  What to do with the "Big Four"? 

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thread_title:  Bots 

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replies: text: I decided to fix the issue. I also added the rizon network to the timeline. — comment added by Redomar (talk) 17:10, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Really guys? 

message: can some one replace this image?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot-XChat-_Moniker42_@_FreeNode_-_-ubuntuforums_(%2Btn)-1.png, its kinda insulting 194.151.100.206 (talk) 09:54, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can some one replace of crop the last part out of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot-XChat-_Moniker42_@_FreeNode_-_-ubuntuforums_(%2Btn)-1.png?? 

message: IRC is seeing a resurgence thanks to twitch.tv. Thankfully I have been on IRC before twitch's time so I can see the evolution first-hand. If anybody thinks they need to add anything, type away. Thanks, ian. 137.124.161.17 (talk) 02:17, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  twitch.tv 

message: Here are 3 articles that are very similar:
- Internet Relay Chat script
- IRC bot
- Internet Relay Chat services
While I know there are technical differences between these 3 things, it seems like having this material spread out over 4 articles (if you also include Internet Relay Chat) is unhelpful.
Also, what's up with the arbitrary choice of "IRC" vs "Internet Relay Chat"? For pretty much all articles of the form "Internet Relay Chat ____", I believe "IRC _____" is probably more suitable. (See ex. TCP congestion control)
104.228.101.152 (talk) 21:06, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too many articles 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: By my diligent count there are around 1500-1800 actual human users on Efnet, the remainder are various botnets, clones, and zombie BNC or screened irssi instances.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:63:C297:5000:9DA6:689E:5BB6:9FD5 (talk) 16:19, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Efnet Bot Nest 

message: I think it’s time this man got a wiki page. His twitter bio is a good source of information but but I also have other knowledge on him. For example he calls his fans little stinkers because when he was a young child he thought it would be funny to throw his dogs faeces into a fan. His mother proceeded to call him a little stinker until the age of 13.  Lil Chips (talk) 20:31, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drew Gooden (YouTuber) 

message: Are family members allowed to edit?  In my particular case, my brother is on Wikipedia but I'm his sister, and there are much information that is incorrect. I understand that I have to be neutral, and not bias.  JaraLynn (talk) 21:27, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family Members 

message: KaiOS, the feature phone Linux operating system, has no IRC clients available, so I was wondering if this statement is still true?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.174.218.135 (talk) 16:25, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "IRC clients are available for every major OS platform that supports internet access" is no longer true... 

message: I found it difficult to submit my article which I contributed Abubakar Zaria (talk) 10:39, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help to submit my draft article 

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Firstly, I am a victim of people who have targeted me in the past who have tried to exploit me and others like me, I am a religious person and I have an understanding in Safeguarding vulnerable adults which I am. When I was editing the page khawarij sect I felt I had to remove the connection between Salafism and the Khawarij as these are two different sects. Although some Khawaraji have used the guise of Salafism they also have used the guise in Deobandis. So when there is information connected to a sect that is religiously not connected and Muslims have called against them, it makes me and others feel fear that our friends could be targeted although law-abiding worshipers could be viewed like the khawaraji and someone bring harm to us. I have to put that out there because people who might not like muslims might  see information with a connection to sects and target the mosques and that's my concern if you don't think that's a reality it had been such as someone who attacked a mosque in London because they felt it was an extremist mosque which it was not. These are my concerns and I feel they are been misunderstood. IrishDonovan (talk) 10:34, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Immediate concern needs clarification 

message: irssi.org:
"Irssi Chat Client. Your text mode chatting application since 1999. IRC built-in. Multi-protocol friendly for module authors. Shipped-by-default Perl scripting with a wide range of available extensions. Integrates into the UNIX stack: Your window manager, your terminal emulator, your remote connection, your terminal multiplexer, your IRC bouncer, your IRC adapter."
*"IRC adapter" does not occur in any article.
*"remote connection" does not disambiguate
;References
*https://github.com/nandub/hubot-irc This is the IRC adapter for hubot
*https://metacpan.org/pod/Hubot::Adapter::Irc
*https://www.npmjs.com/package/modum-irc-adapter
*https://github.com/akrennmair/joe-irc-adapter
*https://joe-bot.net/recipes/adapter/
*lita-irc  an adapter for Lita that allows you to use the robot with IRC.
*Good uses for an IRC bot in an IT department  reddit
*Curated list of awesome IRC resources
: .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 21:57, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "IRC adapter" is not explained 

message: https://irc-source.com/ form the external links does not seem to work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vaganyik (talk • contribs) 01:15, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-working external link 

message: It seems the image of the first IRC server doesn't actually display what it says it does. Has the server been in a strange case or something? It seems to have an Apple logo on it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SimonTheSaint (talk • contribs) 05:52, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a Sun server - the Sun logo is about halfway down on the righthand side. The other two logos (one of which is Apple) appear to be for attached components. Mindmatrix 12:35, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Image not a Sun server?

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replies: text: Internet Relay Chat →  – Per WP:COMMONNAME and MOS:ACROTITLE, this acronym is primarily used for this subject and the subject is primarily referred to by its acronym. PhotographyEdits (talk) 11:25, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

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thread_title:  Requested move 29 January 2024 

message: The importance of IRC is that it was one of the first examples of a tool/platform that enabled, relatively easily, "hosting side" or "Service side" capabilities to non-corporate nonprofessionals with home client hardware with a residential internet connection.   The clients incorporated sufficient built in, usually GUI-based or GUI-facilitated, functionality to provide rudimentary channel hosting capabilities (Ableit lacking the ability to effectively host your own network).   No need to know how to script HTML or any other coding.   Additionally, it was the 1st example of a wide-spread avaible "realtime interactive" chat/communications environment.
in fact, the "Realtime chat" concept, is *still* a relatively minimally used and minimally developed field of technology to the point that this functionality CONTINUES TO BE a major reason why people still seek out IRC (that, and being old crusty neckbeards angrily dismissive of change;  PROTIP:  you have an exceptionally high likelihood of finding an operational CRT monitor in the home of a heavy user of IRC in '24)
the ability to use IRC for this tyhpe of relationship (in which the "user" is another residential internet connected user just like the "host" with a very "symmetrical" arrangement of resources) also allowed it to be used for some of its more notorious applications.
notably:  IRC was used extensively by military in-theater users, for battlefield intelligence reporting and command and control, purportedly during the baltic wars and the 1st gulf war, in addition to other smaller conflicts that don't have "war" names attached to them.    Even in the mid 1990s, laptops existed and since IRC could be used with the bandwidth provided by modem interfaced to an RJ-12 opper wire phone, nascent cellular phone, or satellite phone it meant it could be used almost anywhere in the world to send reports back to a base of operations.
in addition, it also enabled the early hackers to perform realtime command and control of infected computers.   The old "botnets"  were almost always controlled by headless IRC clients, leading to the policy of blocking various IRC ports in the earliest retail SOHO routers.67.165.122.133 (talk) 00:29, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  The importance of IRC in the development of the internet  - the hardware and bandwidth overhead requirements