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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.
Kiwi IRC
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Matrix 2.0: How we’re making Matrix go voom
> 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?
- IRCv3 2022 Spec round-up
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Long term good standing user account seems to be disabled, is it ok to ask here for advice for what looks like a automated P2P-NET ban?
First try the web-based ones - https://kiwiirc.com/ - https://mibbit.com/
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y a-t-il encore des utilisateurs de chan IRC ?
Un client en ligne : https://kiwiirc.com/ Un serveur français : https://www.epiknet.org/irc/
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Looking for a single-room web-based chat client
You can take a look at kiwi irc: https://github.com/kiwiirc/kiwiirc and configure the channels it joins.
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Looking for some very specific courses. Voice acting, acting, voice over, narrator stuff, I just wanna know how people do this shit!
Their IRC link is on their homepage. If you don't have an IRC client you can use https://kiwiirc.com/ in browser.
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Ergo IRC Server
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.
- Can you build IRC Chats between users into a website chat frame
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Lispers active anywhere else with a better topical discussion tool?
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
- How to setup web IRC
What are some alternatives?
ZNC - Official repository for the ZNC IRC bouncer
InspIRCd - A modular C++ IRC server (ircd).
Convos - Convos :busts_in_silhouette: is the simplest way to use IRC in your browser [Moved to: https://github.com/convos-chat/convos]
Quassel IRC - Quassel IRC: Chat comfortably. Everywhere.
Weechat - The extensible chat client.
Shout - Deprecated. See fork @ https://github.com/thelounge
ngircd - Free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server
YiffSpot - A real-time web chat for "yiffing" randomly with other furries anonymously.
Glowing Bear - A web client for WeeChat