irssi VS modern-irc

Compare irssi vs modern-irc and see what are their differences.

modern-irc

A useful overview and reference to the IRC client protocol as it is implemented today. (by ircdocs)
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irssi modern-irc
10 4
2,799 189
1.0% 1.6%
7.7 5.6
14 days ago 15 days ago
C Sass
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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irssi

Posts with mentions or reviews of irssi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-11.

modern-irc

Posts with mentions or reviews of modern-irc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-28.
  • Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera Chat
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Nov 2023
    You're not allowed null bytes in IRC messages: https://modern.ircdocs.horse/#parameters

    Some IRC servers (especially those written in C) may interpret it as a line end, so you would have a similar issue

  • Implementing an IRC Server; which rfc?
    3 projects | /r/irc | 31 Oct 2022
    https://modern.ircdocs.horse/ is based on both 1459 and 2812, and describes the protocol shared by all current implementations. If you see any inaccuracy, please open a ticket at https://github.com/ircdocs/modern-irc/ so we can fix it.
  • Show HN: I made Devzat – It's like discord but in the terminal, over SSH
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Mar 2022
    You might wanna check it out. Things like code quotes and expand/collapse would be cool to add. I think some clients already support emoji as it's just UTF8?

    It's common for IRC users to use IRC from a terminal client on their desktop. If they have a remote server, they'll use a screen session to keep their IRC client running in the background and re-open it when they want. Or they'll keep an eggdrop bot on a server somewhere, which is basically a sorta IRC proxy that they connect to from their desktop and can keep their user online in the background.

    Here's some stuff on IRC: https://github.com/ircdocs/modern-irc | https://www.mirc.com/colors.html | https://wiki.wireshark.org/IRC

What are some alternatives?

When comparing irssi and modern-irc you can also consider the following projects:

Weechat - The extensible chat client.

devzat - The devs are over here at devzat, chat over SSH!

hexchat - GTK+ IRC client

bubbletea - A powerful little TUI framework 🏗

solo1 - Solo 1 firmware in C

wish - Make SSH apps, just like that! 💫

halloy - IRC application written in Rust

irctest - Semi-automated conformance checking for IRC implementations (RFC1459/RFC2812, the "modern spec" by ircdocs, and IRCv3)

securitytxt.org - Static website for security.txt.

soft-serve - The mighty, self-hostable Git server for the command line🍦

srain - Modern IRC client written in GTK

sydent - Sydent: Reference Matrix Identity Server