InspIRCd
A modular C++ IRC server (ircd). (by inspircd)
Oragono
A modern IRC server (daemon/ircd) written in Go. (by oragono)
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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.
InspIRCd
Posts with mentions or reviews of InspIRCd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-30.
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Looking for: Chat service that isn't web server based
Looks fine for me. Note - you can download DEB file from https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/releases for Ubuntu and install it .. no point going over compilation stuff or via docker https://hub.docker.com/r/inspircd/inspircd-docker/
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Over the internet messages/connection API or service for python
Once you've spun up a server, you'll need some sort of software to relay messages between the clients. In my opinion it's hard to go wrong with IRC here. Inspircd is pretty painless to install and configure.
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Create an irc server
If you want a highly customizable ircd to setup https://www.inspircd.org/
- Cant get InspIRCd to work
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how can I set up my own private hexchat network?
The most popular are UnrealIRCd and InspIRCd and it looks like they will both run on Windows. (I assume you are using Windows)
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 InspIRCd and Oragono you can also consider the following projects:
ngircd - Free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server
Kiwi IRC - 🥝 Next generation of the Kiwi IRC web client
The Lounge - 💬 Modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client
Convos - Convos :busts_in_silhouette: is the simplest way to use IRC in your browser [Moved to: https://github.com/convos-chat/convos]
Robust IRC - RobustIRC - an IRC network without netsplits, implemented in Go using the Raft consensus algorithm
unrealircd - Official UnrealIRCd repository. Downloads are available from our site
Weechat - The extensible chat client.
ZNC - Official repository for the ZNC IRC bouncer