When there are no new messages in any channels the bar looks like this: If the channel number is just light grey, it means the only activity in the window is join/parts. When the channel number is yellow, it means someone has said something, the first number if parens is the number of messages, the second number (if present) is the number of join/part messages. When someone mentions me, the window number turns pink, and the first number in parens indicates the number of messages that mention me, the second number is the number of other messages. The numbers in parentheses indicate the type of activity in the window. The numbers and colors tell me more about the type of activity in the channel. If the number appears in the bar, it means there is new activity in that channel that I haven't seen yet. The numbers in the blue bar on the bottom correspond to IRC channels. The screenshot below shows a what I normally see when I am connected. I typically use the open source WeeChat IRC client. Instead, I have created filters from various sources that send notifications to various IRC channels about things I am interested in.
I don't use an RSS reader, I visit Twitter and Facebook only occasionally, and I try to limit my email usage to only business. What I mean by this is that IRC has been my primary hub for reading information online and interacting with people and systems. This is also an attempt to document the functionality it provides since I want to replace the underlying technology later. After reading this post, I hope you will be able to understand why IRC has continued to be a useful platform for me for many years.
People often look at me funny when I say I live in IRC. I now connect to my Weechat instance via Glowing Bear, which has eliminated some of the problems discussed below.
Since then, a few things have changed about my setup.
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