I went online via IRC today for the first time in 7 years today.
I know I’ve been gone from my channels for a while, but what I didn’t expect was the complete and total wasteland that I found. Literally no channels I had been in before still existed. I am crushed. There are only a fraction of the channels on the OFTC servers. IRCHighway is the same. I know life happens, it’s why I had been away for 7 years. I did see a few familiar names, but only 3 of 4. So saddening to see what is left of a once vibrant online community. IRC is outdated now, replaced by slack and Discord, but I had hoped, I had hoped.
I wonder if any of them are on the new applications? And if they are, are they still using the old nicks? Le sigh. Nostalgia