Is Direct Connect still 'a thing'? angielski

odium, rok temu

I’ve got bad news for you, what you consider a few years ago is two entire decades.

earthling, rok temu

No, that can't be right.

feral_hedgehog, rok temu

Yeah no way, the 90s were something like 10 years ago and… wait now we’re in…
Ohh… Ohh no…

metaStatic, rok temu

a few years ago in the late 1900s

ultratiem, rok temu

Oh man why didn’t you say it was last week!

JackbyDev, rok temu

In the 20th century

peereboominc, rok temu

That is a long time ago that I have heard anyone say that. Wasn’t there a client software called DC++ or something like that?

Discola, rok temu

We were using DC++ on campus to share files over twelve years ago!

iHUNTcriminals, rok temu

Yup. Where people would share their entire c drive to be able to join servers…

Their entire c drive… Everything.

Uranium3006, rok temu

They'll get your system32!

HackerJoe, rok temu

That was super helpful to just grab one or two broken files from any installed software though. I just had a 250GB ISO with 2MB of compressed zeroes to get into servers with ridiculous requirements. Fun times…

BlueAure, rok temu

Purdue University still has a campus-only file sharing network called DTella that’s DC++. It been getting smaller, but there were a few members that shared 50+ TB at one point.

bblfrnz, rok temu

It is still used. There are lots of various hubs, a bunch of niche hubs with content that is almost impossible to find anywhere else, especially if it’s something really old and obscure, not all of them are public. Speaking of clients, try AirDC++ for instance, thats what I use right now

Kanda, rok temu

Irc, sunxdcc.com has most servers fairly well indexed

noisypine, rok temu

I use it, but due to it being more cumbersome, I go to IRC first. If I can’t find it on IRC, I can usually get it from DC++.

pirate, rok temu

Are you using xdcc.eu or sunxdcc.com, or are you searching directly through IRC on each of your preferred servers?

noisypine, rok temu

Little bit of both. Usually I start with sunxdcc and xdcc.eu, but if I can’t find it, I search in the chats. Sometimes not all packs are listed and the search engines.

highduc, rok temu

Not sure if joking or…? If you’re joking it went over my head :)

noisypine, rok temu

Not joking. This all works, probably a lot better than you may think.

lauha, rok temu

How do you search files on IRC? You’re joking, right?

jayandp, rok temu

There are IRC/XDCC search engines. I don’t know their exact method of scraping IRC servers, but they kinda work.

Also, if you know the right servers and channels, most have some kind of search index or bot.

noisypine, rok temu

Not joking. There are sites like sunxdcc for searching from the web, and otherwise, !s in chats to search. Works great, honestly.

antlion, rok temu

xdcccatcher.net

Joins all of the active IRC bot channels. Catches and indexes all the bot announcements. Creates a fast searchable index of packs. Also works for packs found on sunxdcc.com

3enhjz, rok temu

Became a thing again for me after the death of 32p without a replacement.

bblfrnz, rok temu

Exactly, unfortunately dc is the only place where you can find 32p content.

pascal, rok temu

What’s 32p?

bblfrnz, rok temu

A private tracker that doesn’t exist anymore

frishi, rok temu

Aaaaand here’s my mandatory plug for ThreeTwo, a comic book curation app (like Mylar) but with integration with DC++ by the way of AirDC++

Check it out if that’s your thing: github.com/rishighan/threetwo

Apologies if my plug is in bad taste, but I’m trying to reach as many interested users as possible to get them to test and give me feedback.