What happend?

Can someone just tell me what the f*ck has happend to IRC? Used to be so active, used to be constant competition between #Hot_Tub and #Playground, now hot tub is closed downa and playground has 26 people and there dj doesnt work anymore, its so dead and now the best channel is #noob_kingdom, what the f**k..

You're forgetting about #runners ;)

Ched wanted chat boxes to replace IRC and decided to stop providing a link to torn's official IRC. It slowly died out, but it's still not entirely dead, several factions still use it and there's still giveaway channels.

Slacks better than irc much more user friendly

You probably didn't know about #party , still an active room

did someone say party?

There's also #duckpond #luckylotto and #purge

Question in top of this though. Is irc still the main source of acces to the community or is there another third party that people are using?

/me cries for days at the great loss of her once favorite hang out spot on torn. ='(

Yeah what a shame. I'd be interested to start scripting a multi functioning bot, but seems almost pointless now that IRC is dying.

IRC is not dying. IMO, it's been more active on my view that its ever been.

hot tub and playground are not the only chans on there.

That's not true, One bit lol, I don't know if you were around 1-2 years ago but every channel was active, Christmas specials, Radios, Everything, Huge giveaways and now you would be lucky to see a giveaway over 5m. It's dead.

Yes, I was. I was one of the admin of #poker&liquor and #pnl, we gave away billions at a time. And yes, I can agree with lotto chans not being as active but giveaway channels are not the only type of channels on IRC.

I'm in several others that have literal non-stop conversations; faction rooms, war chans, etc. Activity in these places have increased a lot more then they used to be. IRC is not dead, people just aren't into giveaways as much these days.

Also, we here at #luckylotto do have quite a few giveaways over 5mil. ;)

@OP

I know of two people who have won $100 mil lottos in my faction alone within the last two weeks. I know of numerous other lottos over 5 mil, in more than one channel, I've even won a few of them myself. Keep in mind, this is only a fraction of the lottos I've won(although all of the others are sub $5 mil). IRC is pretty active...

You were sent $5,000,000 from MeanMike with the message: Winner in LL ! Grats ! 2016/11/29 1:56:21 AM

You were sent $7,000,000 from BambinaDuckie with the message: Duckpond Weaner 2016/11/16 12:44:19 AM
You were sent a Feathery Hotel Coupon from BambinaDuckie with the message: Lucky Duckie Winner in Duckpond 2016/11/15 10:57:41 PM
You were sent $5,000,000 from MeanMike with the message: Winner in LL ! Grats ! 2016/10/31 9:29:29 PM You were sent $25,000,000 from Stewie with the message: Congratulations! You're the biggest noob in #Noob_Kingdom 2016/09/08 11:15:08 PM

Yeah but that channel seems to have a lot of Divas. Stay away people, stay the fuk away.

If you remember me from the past, you will know in actuality (with the exception of me being quite busy with a new job as of February) that the radio aspect is coming back, the progress is slow but does exist www.TornParty.com -- #PARTY on IRC -- (Website coming soon). You can find members from the old Hot Tub, Playground, and other channels there and lotto's happen just not as frequently as they once did...

I was gone for much of RESPO 2.0 but from what I gather once the chats were brought in and irc links removed from the main navigation bar things wen't downhill from there...

Actually #party is a great room and plenty of friendly people on there at all times of the day. Plus plenty of lottos in there and in #duckpond.

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