Well, I am a MIRC user myself. I uses it to download manga for several years. IRC also good for anime sountrack (#nipponsei).

I just read a comment, they say that IRC is a tool for nerds who cling to the past, and that no one nowadays use it to download stuff anymore. 😐 😐

I join #lurk and asked users there if any of them are in their teens or twenties. Most of them said that they r in their thirties or above.
😉 😉

I know that torrent is convenient for downloading movies and anime (actually animes download from http://www.animetake.com/ by torrents r with eng-sub).
But MRIC also has its advantages, right?

I want to ask what tools u r using to get manga and anime related stuff & do u think that MIRC users r mostly not young?

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Well, certainly young people think it's hard to use so they don't really try, but it's not like that. First time I used it I was around 18 probably, not that young, but still younger than now. I use it sometimes, when there is no other way to get the stuff through 🤣

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I'm 16 and I use IRC --started when I was about 13

MIRC... I use it, and I'm 18. But my cousin, who's 25... uses it a lot. I guess I only got to using it because of scanlation groups.

Downloading using IRC is way faster for me.

I torrent around 1-2MB but IRC transfers can reach 5 MB.

The only problem with it is download slots, queues, etc.

Some groups also don't have their own bots, an easy to achieve xdcc list, and other problems.

I'm18 and I use IRC. Started when I was 16.

I use ye olde direct download and occasionally bittorrent. I don't really care about the speed, just as long as I get what I'm downloading. I tried to figure out how to use IRC a number of times, but for some reason it was very hard for me. And I had no idea that IRC and MIRC were two different things.

I sound like an old fogey who doesn't know how to use the internet.

But I am only 24.

My other pastimes include hunting mammoths and painting pictures on cave walls.

Manga = From file sharing sites or IRC
Anime = Torrents

Well, it probably seems like there are a lot of older people on irc because in the beginning of scanlation, that was the way to get things and I guess it stuck with them?
I'm only 15 but I use IRC and I know tons of teens~20s people on irc. Some even younger than me. o_o

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I use ye olde direct download and occasionally bittorrent. I don't really care about the speed, just as long as I get what I'm downloading. I tried to figure out how to use IRC a number of times, but for some reason it was very hard for me. And I had no idea that IRC and MIRC were two different things.

I sound like an old fogey who doesn't know how to use the internet.

But I am only 24.

My other pastimes include hunting mammoths and painting pictures on cave walls.

mIRC is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for Microsoft Windows

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It's IRC, not mIRC.

mIRC is just a client, IRC is the protocol.

Also, I've used IRC for 6 years, I'm 20 now.

I'd assume so.

Little n00blets usually either can't be bothered reading instructions or just don't understand IRC.

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I only started using IRC about half a year ago... still don't know much... well, I'd better say I pretty much know nothing, but I am trying to get better at it (working on ftpc recently).

So, an ignorant 22 year old is trying to use IRC. It's not young for this site, but I'd say it's still younger what your thinking.

(okay, so... I don't use mIRC, but I use IRC.)

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and I don't know you. Make sure it doesn't leave the building."[/color]

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I'm 16 and I use IRC --started when I was about 13

wow same here...it was my favorite program to download manga & music back in the days...until i discovered mangatraders, and bittorrent

i still visits mirc sometimes when i'm in need for anime music, but definitely not as much as i used to...age definitely does not correlates with ability - a kid might be lurking in lurk for manga and whatnot among the abundance of perverts and idlers usually found to be discussing something hentai-related in that channel

although i do agree that younger manga-lovers tend to turn into easier ways to downloading the releases through means of the group's website/forum or another third party hosting website....

The Deviant

It's understandable that the average age of IRC user to be past their tweens. IRC is the OG of fast downloading. After torrents arrived, many people switched over because it was more convenient and new users started to adapt it. Now that downloading over the interwebs and torrents is much more easy and reliable, IRC has become dated technology and only those that know how to use it, use it and those who don't know, don't want to learn.

P.S. Learning simple DOS commands is not difficult.

Yeah I don't think It's so dated that everyone using it is in their 30's and up but it's definately a bit old school now. I origninally got into it before I was much of a manga or anime fan because I was pretty serious about CS during highschool and IRC was essentially the default means for communication within that community. Once I got into anime and manga I figured out how useful it could be and have been using it for that ever since. I am now 25. I think people who have a reason to use it and take the time to sit down and learn the basics will keep using it from time to time at least, but since there are so many other options nowadays most don't see the need to bother with it.

Well I'm one of the "old people" but I only started using IRC about 5-7 years ago when someone lured me there with manga I really wanted (and they refused to share any other way 🤣 ). IRC is a bit intimidating, esp. if you're used to point-&-click stuff rather than typing commands, but once you know the basics it's VERY easy & fast to dl manga.

For larger files (anime, dorama, etc.) I do use torrents, partly because torrents allow me to share with others pretty painlessly, but for manga IRC is my first choice (#lurk makes it damn easy, just ignore the conversation and queue up files like crazy~) and ddl second choice. Manga torrents seem to go dead really quickly and I'm not usually dling right after they're released, so I don't torrent manga much.

"[English] not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary."
-James Nicoll, can.general, March 21, 1992