It's impossible for us moderators to mod every place as well. Also it's a bad business to keep something that costs a lot of money that few people use. When the same function would work with a chatroom on this very website.I didn't use the IRC but I can see why a lot of people would like to still have it as a function. Not everyone wants to use Discord and giving another option for them to use a chat system, like IRC, would be nice.
As a user, whenever an IRC server is down the normal response is to wait it out until it reconnects. Sometimes port or domain/address changes are required. And that is exactly what I've been waiting for - for it to reconnect.I visited it a few weeks ago and no one seemed to be active.
I disabled it yesterday. Didn't get any reaction from anyone until now.
If no one uses it I might as well keep it disabled because it costs money.
Sadly enough Discord is a fad. It has a low barrier of entry and it attracts many people. But due to its closed nature it will never be a replacement for IRC. All I need is a good text based protocol that is accessible via any client under the sun.Well there is discord now so there is that
The forum chat doesn't have a client and is worse than IRC or discord and can't really integrate with any normal desktop app that someone may already be using to connect.I understand exactly why someone would prefer IRC over Discord, but if its for this community then whats wrong with the new Chat system on the forum that replaces the shoutbox? (https://gbatemp.net/chat)
Genuine question because I'm genuinely curious, it seems liike a solid replacement but there probably is some reasoning or nostgalgia that I'm missing.
if anyone else is willing to run an IRC server I'm OK to point the DNS at you.
Send me the details via PM and I'll pick the most reasonable one
Again, it comes down to moderating the channel/network. I don't know what the $$$ figure is. Figured it was low-bandwith crap you could run off your existing hosting.It's impossible for us moderators to mod every place as well. Also it's a bad business to keep something that costs a lot of money that few people use. When the same function would work with a chatroom on this very website.
IRCHighway has chanserv and all that. just encourage migration there or something if it costs all that money i love you costello
Its general existence predates the site but after efnet got annoying to use it went for own servers. It did used to be on the front page but got lost in a reshuffle so was mostly those that dug deep or that already knew at that point. Probably added to why it also appeared more inactive during Costello's sampling as fresh blood as it were is needed to keep conversation flowing.I didn't know the GBATemp IRC ever existed (I don't think it's advertised anywhere on the site), but if I did, I would of joined.
Yes, and like all fads, it will end eventually. I used Pidgin for AIM, YIM, and MSN, all of which are dead now. Now I use Pidgin for Discord, which will sooner or later go the way of previous closed protocols.Sadly enough Discord is a fad.
Is IRChighway standard in most clients nowadays? It is one of the few other servers I am always on so would be happy enough to set up #gbatemp/#gbatemp.net on that but when loading it up with other clients over the years I have often had to go fetch ports/addresses for it and if we can spare that for those joining I might be inclined to look elsewhere.
This is unfortunate. Although I haven't been that active in #gbatemp.net, I was using it often to message mlc about gt, my Ghost Trick RE project. If I need to run my own ircd or use XMPP instead, so be it. But it least I know what happened. I agree with FAST's points. Why didn't I react 'till recently? Because I have a life and first assumed it was a temporary downtime.I visited it a few weeks ago and no one seemed to be active.
I disabled it yesterday. Didn't get any reaction from anyone until now.
If no one uses it I might as well keep it disabled because it costs money.
This thread is the best representation of taking something for granted, then complain as soon as a change happened.
The gbatemp admins don't owe the users the services, the services are offered based on the demand and actual use, and if the IRC was taken down because the user base was summarised to 3 users idle for months, it's simply not worth keeping, in my honest opinion.
IRC lived for 3 decades, and so what? If you only claim this for bragging rights, good for you, if no one used a car for 50 years and bragged owning it in their garage in perfect condition, I'm sure it would be just as impressive, but for what purpose really?
Imagine a restaurant at the end of your street, if it has customers for decades, then someday less and less people except the handful of very old customers still came, things would eventually become unsustainable for the very few people who still came, so what happens usually? Not too unrealistic to make 2+2 and know 4 means it's going out of business, no matter how upset the regular customers may be, that's just how life works, and I admit I hate it too.
I can still turn the server back on guys.
The number of reactions here seems to prove that the server was still in use.
Again I made the assumption that no one was using it anymore because :
- I logged in and I didn’t see anyone there
- I asked around and I was told it was barely used anymore
- everyone is on discord, telegram, etc.
But this thread seems to confirm that there is still demand. I’ll do what it takes to reactivate the server soon then.
Old enough to get tired of people in general, and just old enough to also be passively watching the world burn with a lovely grin, but that's hardly relevant to this thread, or the fact my reply was mostly composed of real world observations, is it?how old are you?
about $5 per month or something.how much does it cost to run Costello? send me a DM.