{"id":3034,"date":"2015-01-12T02:22:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T07:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3034"},"modified":"2015-01-12T02:22:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T07:22:44","slug":"irc-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2015\/01\/12\/irc-is-back","title":{"rendered":"IRC is back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IRC never really went away. If you are a participant in the opensource world, there\u2019s a good chance you\u2019ve fired up an IRC client to connect to your project channel (eg. #maria) to chat with people involved with the project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/\">Slack<\/a> is becoming really popular, and from what I can tell, it looks very much like IRC. I tried Kik again, when I read <a href=\"http:\/\/avc.com\/2014\/12\/hashtags-as-social-networks\/\">Hashtags as Social Networks<\/a>. This <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@tedlivingston\/hashtags-as-social-networks-5d3de8cc5d89\">is<\/a> IRC \u2013 with a channel limit (50 users). The twist is that its mobile, since you\u2019re quite happily doing this kind of chat on your mobile phone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20IRC%20is%20back&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2015%2F01%2F12%2Firc-is-back&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Covering Eric Raymond's new Multimedia HOWTO, the updated schedule (for FC2 test1), a report on the Fedora Bug Squad, as well as important changes to how the #fedora IRC channel works now (where you need registered nicknames).","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":394,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/24\/mysql-uc-wiki","url_meta":{"origin":3034,"position":4},"title":"MySQL UC Wiki","date":"24\/4\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"If you're at the MySQL Users Conference 2006, we'd love if you took notes and shared it with everyone... There are some cool tools like Gobby or SubEthaEdit that some folk might enjoy, since there's a WiFi network available. 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