modern-irc VS sydent

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

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.

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

GitHub Discussions can also be a great place for support as long as these are regularly monitored. Another option along the same lines is Discourse and the Open Source Matrix which is used by quite a few Open Source and community-based projects.

Tangential: the article notes that Telegram is an “encrypted messaging app”. While this is technically true, it's worth keeping in mind that it's not end-to-end encrypted, so it's less secure in that regard than, say, Signal or even WhatsApp. Telegram does have opt-in end-to-end encrypted one-on-one chats, but those are very inconvenient to use.

For a properly encrypted chat app, including group chats (opt-in), try Matrix instead: https://matrix.org/

I'd love something like the Matrix [0] data model (JSON messages aggregated in an eventually-consistent chatroom CRDT) transmitted over something like simplex for metadata resistance.

[0] https://matrix.org

Trillian mod here. There's this new thing called Beeper, works on matrix.org. It's not as the good old times, but I'm currently using whatsapp, FB messenger, discord, telegram, signal, imessage and a few more. It's not Cerulean experience, but it's... slowly improving.

I'm trying to change my account provider from "matrix.org" to whatever Element One needs, and for the life of me I just don't understand what values I have to put where to be able to log in. I tried `element.io`, which takes me to sso.element.io but this doesn't seem like the right thing (no credentials work as I expect.