Kiwi IRC VS profanity

> At that point you've just reimplemented a less-standard version of matrix with extra steps though.

There are IRCv3 specifications that allow this richer experience, and they are at least as standard as Matrix. Check out https://ergo.chat/ with modern clients like https://sr.ht/~emersion/goguma/ (Android), https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/gamja/ https://kiwiirc.com/ (web), or https://git.sr.ht/~taiite/senpai (TUI)

> but in practice using your enhanced server from an unenhanced client will always be painful

IRCv3 normally makes sure new specs don't make it worse for older clients. Could you give me some examples to see if we can fix that?

First try the web-based ones - https://kiwiirc.com/ - https://mibbit.com/

Un client en ligne : https://kiwiirc.com/ Un serveur français : https://www.epiknet.org/irc/

You can take a look at kiwi irc: https://github.com/kiwiirc/kiwiirc and configure the channels it joins.

Their IRC link is on their homepage. If you don't have an IRC client you can use https://kiwiirc.com/ in browser.

It depends. There's a lot of people on/around IRC who really like it (see libera and all the other networks), and yeah there definitely are people spinning up new smaller networks. Especially with things like https://sr.ht/~emersion/gamja/ and self-hosted https://kiwiirc.com/ , as well as really polished client experiences like irccloud, it's easier to convince people to join in.

Right now I'm working with a dev from libera on a client that aims to replicate a lot of things experience-wise from newer chat services. Hoping that with that, smaller self-contained servers can become more of a norm~ But for now, your best bets for finding activity are probably Libera and a couple of the other larger networks.

I use https://kiwiirc.com and it allows me to create a temporary account without an e-mail. I think you need an e-mail if you want to 'reserve' your name

I had a great experience contributing to this C project (there is also Python involved) https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity

One option, maybe a little clunky - check out profanity (https://profanity-im.github.io/), a terminal based xmpp client. It has a python api. You can write a crude plugin to connect to [email protected] (or whatever user you figure out). Then just listen for incoming messages on a loop. When something is received, run it through a few cases to match the message with the intended event (or discard or whatever). Then probably trigger some external shell script to do the data retrieval, returning to the plugin to send. Profanity runs on pretty much anything.

XMPP client: Profanity

I haven't used it, but if you like irssi you might also like profanity which claims to be inspired by it: https://profanity-im.github.io/

Our website is: https://profanity-im.github.io/

Or, there is profanity (https://profanity-im.github.io/) and there is a python library that makes things go quickly. I had a thought to have a plugin autoconnect the "bot" user to the server, start an omemo session with a user (or users), and listen on a local socket or something for messages to send over the omemo session. I had issues with the omemo enrollment/key exchange sticking though, which made it unreliable.