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		askafriend on June 6, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Do you still use IRC? We use Slack at work and I use Facebook Messenger and iMessage for everything else. Sometimes I'll watch illicit NBA streams where there will be a chat next to the video and I'll shitpost in there. Most "channel" type discussion is best done in subreddits or places like HN rather than real-time chat. At least in my experience. I wasn't around during the heyday of IRC though so I have a bit of a different perspective.

wingerlang on June 7, 2016 [–]

> Most "channel" type discussion is best done in subreddits or places like HN rather than real-time chat.

I wasn't around it as well, but I feel the types of discussions you get on reddit/HN is extremely different from irc/slack.

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