Convos
Convos :busts_in_silhouette: is the simplest way to use IRC in your browser [Moved to: https://github.com/convos-chat/convos] (by Nordaaker)
Oragono
A modern IRC server (daemon/ircd) written in Go. (by oragono)
| Convos | Oragono | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | |
| 793 | 2,153 | |
| - | 1.2% | |
| 0.0 | 8.3 | |
| about 3 years ago | 17 days ago | |
| Perl | Go | |
| Artistic License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Convos
Posts with mentions or reviews of Convos.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Convos: A Persistent Self-Hosted Web Client for IRC
I saw this posted in r/selfhosted and recognized the name. Convos is an IRC client written in Perl and uses Mojolicious: https://github.com/Nordaaker/convos
Oragono
Posts with mentions or reviews of Oragono.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-29.
- IRC Is the Only Viable Chat Protocol
- Ergo: Erlang/OTP Implemented in Golang
- IRCv3 2022 Spec round-up
- How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency
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Chat app to allow messaging between my daughter and I?
You could also go IRC. Ergo server is simple (https://github.com/ergochat/ergo) and there are clients for phones. Text only which maybe is ok.
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Hacker News top posts: Jun 22, 2022
Ergo – modern IRC server written in Go\ (70 comments)
- Ergo – modern IRC server written in Go
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Convos and Oragono you can also consider the following projects:
The Lounge - 💬 Modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client
InspIRCd - A modular C++ IRC server (ircd).
Kiwi IRC - 🥝 Next generation of the Kiwi IRC web client
ngircd - Free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server
ZNC - Official repository for the ZNC IRC bouncer
IRCAnywhere - IRCAnywhere web based multi-user IRC bouncer built for teams
Robust IRC - RobustIRC - an IRC network without netsplits, implemented in Go using the Raft consensus algorithm
Weechat - The extensible chat client.
Quassel IRC - Quassel IRC: Chat comfortably. Everywhere.