IRC?

[Shadow#1]

GBATemp IRC dead for good now?

 

[Bladexdsl]

only thing i ever used IRC for was to pirate. oh yes i've been pirating that long

 

[Marc_LFD]

only thing i ever used IRC for was to pirate. oh yes i've been pirating that long

I remember downloading anime episodes via IRC, too. It was fast and very convenient.

 

[Bladexdsl]

fast? if you call a 56k modem fast that's what i had to put up with

 

[subcon959]

fast? if you call a 56k modem fast that's what i had to put up with

My first experience was with 1200 baud so 56k did indeed feel lightning fast compared to that!

 

[CommanderCool]

discord exists and i wouldn't want to hang out there anyways knowing how many fascists the mods defend here as is.

 

[RHOPKINS13]

Is IRC not dead nowadays? I mean, I mainly used it for downloading anime from fansub groups. Now most of those channels seem to be gone. Sadly it seems like fansubs might be dying in general, and simply replaced with encode grouips.

We also had an IRC chat for my anime club, and there was a room I used to go to that had a bot that ran games of Uno.

 

[JackTheHorse]

this time I am afraid it’s gone for good sorry lads!
time to migrate somewhere else

This is stupid. There are dozens of free servers you can officially migrate to. Discord is shit.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

This is stupid. There are dozens of free servers you can officially migrate to. Discord is shit.

Indeed, I might recommend Libera.Chat (what split off from Freenode due to some disagreements between the staff about how the server should be ran)
I think GBAtemp would fit in nicely there, free/open source is very much in the spirit of hacking/homebrew, and it's one of the few big/active IRC networks that remain.

 

[Surkow]

I registered #gbatemp.net on both IRCHighWay (irc.irchighway.net/6667 *¹) and Libera.Chat (irc.libera.chat:6697 (TLS)). Feel free to join either by clicking one of the links.

*1 - The ports supported by IRCHighWay are 6660 to 6669 and 7000. For connections through SSL use port 6697 or 9999.