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Simplicity of IRC
IRC as a protocol is indeed incredibly simple and easy to get started with. Years ago did discover this when I was able to make [this atrocity](https://github.com/creesch/discordIRCd) bridging IRC and discord where for IRC I effectively did a simple server implementation.
There is a caveat, though. Like many older protocols (ftp) there is a lot that was not initially written down or left up to clients and server implementations. This, does lead to a lot of edge cases you need to be aware of once you want to actually support a wider user group.
Also, as this is apparently is still a discussion. IRC is not simple from a modern user UX perception. Registration can be complex and confusing, though hidden a bit through clients. Managing channels with various flags is a whole other thing. Then there is also the fact that these days people are no longer used to the fact that they can't see messages from periods where they were not connected. Of course, the latter can be easily handled by a BNC or fancy clients like https://thelounge.chat . But, that is only easy for technically inclined folks.
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Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
> It’s 2024, people aren’t going to go out of their way to setup “bouncers” to keep up with conversation that happens when they’re not online or leave their computer running 24/7.
You can just set up something like The Lounge [0].
[0] https://thelounge.chat/
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Show HN: GodotOS: A Fake Operating System Interface Made in the Godot Engine
Excellent idea! You'll have a mature, open standard protocol under the hood, with no vendor lock-in, excellent extensibility, and great modern frontends like The Lounge (https://thelounge.chat/) or Convos (https://convos.chat/) to choose from (and you can choose).
- IRC Is the Only Viable Chat Protocol
- Show HN: Halloy – A GUI Application in Rust for IRC
- New thelounge Theme: iAnon
- The Lounge 4.4.0 released - the self-hosted web IRC client
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Matrix 2.0: How we’re making Matrix go voom
For the other layers one can front-end IRC with TheLounge [1][2] or Convos [3][4]. TheLounge only persists history in private mode meaning that users are created in that front-end and chat messages are in Redis. For small networks or groups of friends this is probably fine.
Notably missing is voice chat. I use the Mumble client [5] with the Murmur or uMurmur [6] server which is light-weight enough to run on ones home router. I use it on Alpine Linux, works great. It's not a shiny and attention grabbing as Discord but probably fine for everyone else. For people to create their own voice channels would require the full-blown Murmur server.
[1] - https://github.com/thelounge
[2] - https://thelounge.chat/
[3] - https://github.com/convos-chat/convos/
[4] - https://convos.chat/
[5] - https://www.mumble.info/
[6] - https://github.com/umurmur/umurmur/wiki/Configuration
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I'm trying to set up a client device that will remain connected to a server that I can remotely log into
As another self-hosted solution, I quite like TheLounge (https://thelounge.chat)
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Most used selfhosted services in 2022?
TheLounge (https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge) - web IRC client that I set to listen on my vpn/mesh. Works great on desktop and mobile, and supports push notifications.
InspIRCd
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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)
What are some alternatives?
ZNC - Official repository for the ZNC IRC bouncer
ngircd - Free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server
Kiwi IRC - 🥝 Next generation of the Kiwi IRC web client
Convos - Convos :busts_in_silhouette: is the simplest way to use IRC in your browser [Moved to: https://github.com/convos-chat/convos]
Oragono - A modern IRC server (daemon/ircd) written in Go.
Quassel IRC - Quassel IRC: Chat comfortably. Everywhere.
Weechat - The extensible chat client.
unrealircd - Official UnrealIRCd repository. Downloads are available from our site
YiffSpot - A real-time web chat for "yiffing" randomly with other furries anonymously.