IRC.com
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irc client
SHOW HN2025
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#3,358of 3,837 in 2025
Top 88%of 2025 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
Objections
Maker is blamed for a hostile takeover of freenode and the community split.
From 2 comments
I cannot emphasize enough how OP is a power hungry maniac that decided to blow up a ~30 year old community of ~90k people in an attempt to seize power. This guy does not deserve…
Doxin on HN> remember me from the privacy wars and the freenode drama ... the drama you created by doing a hostile takeover of Freenode and effectively killing it?…
sen on HN
Requests
Support for other IRC networks.
From 1 comment
Questions
How the maker obtained the irc.com domain.
From 1 comment
wait, how did you get irc dot com?
dhrm1k on HN