Tuesday, October 13th, 2026, 4:35 pm
IRC is Not Dying, Quit Repeating This FUD
Filed under: It hurts it
his year I think it’s my 32nd year in IRC. I love IRC, but I’m not very “good at it”. I don’t know many of the functionalities (I collaborate with people who do), I make a ton of typos in IRC (it’s very informal anyway; maybe it ought to be that way), and I’ve only dealt with one ircd in my entire lifetime: ergo.
This morning someone told me IRC was dying; I pushed back and showed data that suggested otherwise.
I was told the users are “bots”; but that is hardly new.
IRC will be around for many years to come. Too many people still love it. ‘Too many’ people who use it are my age or younger. They won’t die any time soon.
