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IRCCloud Blog
Company blog · blog.irccloud.comprogrammingsystems
IRCCloud Blog is the company blog at blog.irccloud.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2013, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “IRCv3”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite IRCCloud's blog as examples of IRC features, such as pastebin links, Slack integration, and the bouncer for paid users. No commenter judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- IRCv33 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-01-30
- /bouncer/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-06
- Slack integration2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-14
- IRCCloud Open Sources iOS and Android Apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-18
What Hacker News says?
Slack is a widely used product, but its use is tiny compared to IRC. IRC isn't just tech people, it's very widely used by a really huge, diverse range of people. Your original comment said 'the days of simplistic IRC protocols are gone' and then you gave a bunch of features with the implication that simple protocols can't handle those features. I simply explained why those features are absolutely implementable over…
Comment linking /emoji/
on “Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications”Submitted IRCv3 as a story · 187 points
HN discussionSome clients will intercept multi-line messages and let you POST the content to a pastebin. That way, supported clients show pretty-printed code and unsupported client just see a URL. Ex: https://blog.irccloud.com/pastebins/
Comment linking /pastebins/
on “Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications”Submitted IRCv3 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYes. See https://ircv3.net/ . An example: https://blog.irccloud.com/slack-integration/
Comment linking /slack-integration/
on “Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision”Submitted IRCv3 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhen IRC looks like this https://quasseldroid.info/assets/images/phone.png or this https://blog.irccloud.com/static/2018-05-14-slack-integratio... and people still complain about IRC’s UI or usability, then what more can we IRC devs do?
Comment linking /static/2018-05-14-slack-integration/sidebyside-irccloud.png
on “We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible”Submitted IRCCloud's Extended Outage Response as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI use irccloud and I go on the DarkScience[0] IRCd. I even went as far as paying for the 1 year, I like just having it all in 1 client that never drops. I know I can setup a bouncer, but oh well. I prefer smaller communities. When I need programming or OS help I go on freenode where plenty of language communities are. Edit: Found out irccloud now supports connection bouncing, so you can use any irc client with them…
Comment linking /bouncer/
on “Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?”Submitted IRCCloud complete round of finance, now hiring as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHi, one of the irccloud team. Can answer any questions if you like. Some info: * Erlang, haproxy, rabbitmq, redis, postgres, cassandra, chef * 10+ billion irc lines stored at the last count * Thousands of IPv6 IRC connections - we give each user their own IPv6 address. Main site also works over ipv6. * Thousands of IPv4 connections too * Open source android and ios apps: https://blog.irccloud.com/mobile-apps-open-so…
Comment linking /mobile-apps-open-sourced/
on “IRCCloud”Submitted IRCCloud Open Sources iOS and Android Apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's not correct, they are offering a bouncer if you are a paid customer: https://blog.irccloud.com/bouncer/
Comment linking /bouncer/
on “IRC Driven – modern IRC indexing site and search engine”Submitted Slack integration as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted IRCCloud web app redesign as a story · 1 points
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