# This board's IRC incarnation:  gone dead?  moved again?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-boards-irc-incarnation-gone-dead-moved-again/463408>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 13, 2008, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-boards-irc-incarnation-gone-dead-moved-again/463408 "2008-09-13T05:27:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-boards-irc-incarnation-gone-dead-moved-again/463408/1 "2008-09-13T05:27:11Z")

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Internet Relay Chat --\> NewNet --\> Join Channel --\> #straightdope

… is a freaking ghost town. Yeah I don’t stop in often, and seldom unintoxicated, but even so, I doubt you’re hiding from me personally. Y’all relocate to a different chatserver or something?

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**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-boards-irc-incarnation-gone-dead-moved-again/463408/2 "2008-09-13T07:38:28Z")

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Hmm. I remember dropping by a Straight Dope IRC channel the last time there was a hamster explosion and people could only communicate through thread titles. Now that I think of it, though, I don’t remember if it was on NewNet or a different network…