I started using IRC when I was 12. I'm 37 now. I owe a lot to IRC. I learned a tonne from some good people, ran several of my own servers which led me to HTTP, FTP and more.
I stopped using IRC full time about five years ago when I realised it's basically dead.
I also find that whenever I return to it today, it's mostly made up of kids (who missed out on the golden era of IRC) and grumpy, old arse-hats who are angry that their platform is dying out and has been reduced to a very small sub-set of (technical) users.
I switched to Discord (here's my server for DevOps: https://discord.gg/devopslounge) and Slack, but now I barely use Slack (the client is just garbage.)
I'm happy to directed to a good IRC network with some good, well run channels on DevOps, programming, infosec and more. If anyone knows of any such places do let me know, but I'll not get my hopes up.
I stopped using IRC full time about five years ago when I realised it's basically dead.
I also find that whenever I return to it today, it's mostly made up of kids (who missed out on the golden era of IRC) and grumpy, old arse-hats who are angry that their platform is dying out and has been reduced to a very small sub-set of (technical) users.
I switched to Discord (here's my server for DevOps: https://discord.gg/devopslounge) and Slack, but now I barely use Slack (the client is just garbage.)
I'm happy to directed to a good IRC network with some good, well run channels on DevOps, programming, infosec and more. If anyone knows of any such places do let me know, but I'll not get my hopes up.