[PRL] irc 2.0?

[David Herman]

"Old ways are the best ways." -- Guildenstern, clearly referring to the many virtues of good ol' IRC

Most of the Mozillians I know on Mac use Colloquy or Textual IRC. I'm not sure what clients people use on other OSes.

Dave

On Dec 18, 2012, at 5:08 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> I (and other people I know in industry) use IRC.  There's an active
> IRC channel on irc.freenode.org for almost every free software project
> in existence.  Mozilla, in particular among companies I know, uses IRC
> for just about everything.
> 
> There's a chat-in-the-cloud startup called Campfire [1] that I know
> some companies use.  There's a cloud IRC service called irccloud that
> I know people who use as well.
> 
> [1] http://campfirenow.com/
> 
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Mitchell Wand <wand at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> What do the cool kids use nowadays for real-time group conversations?
>> 
>> Us old guys used to use irc for this.
>> 
>> Do young folks still use irc?  Is there something else that everybody below
>> the age of 40 uses?  Google+ hangouts?  Something else?
>> 
>> --Mitch
>> 
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