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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
> Itβs 2024, people arenβt going to go out of their way to setup βbouncersβ to keep up with conversation that happens when theyβre 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 β 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 weβre 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.
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Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers
Um if you need backlogging, as I noted, a Bouncer will provide. if they don't provide it for free hosting this on something like a digital ocean droplet can implement it, but then again, it can get expensive.
https://github.com/znc/znc
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Ask HN: What's on Your Home Server?
I've got a slew of different computers doing different things. All of them are networked together via Tailscale.
Ubuntu 22.04 Server for the host, everything else runs in LXC containers. This is all setup on ZFS.
- https://znc.in/ IRC bouncer
- https://caddyserver.com/ Caddy Webserver for a few personal websites
- https://github.com/AndroidKitKat/waifupaste.moe/ My personal pastebin
- https://transmissionbt.com/ Torrent client that I actually use for Linux ISOs. Primarily seed different versions of Ubuntu and the latest Arch. I am looking to seed other, lesser-seeded distros, too.
- It also runs Samba
A second, dedicated computer also running Ubuntu Server 22.04. It only runs https://pleroma.social for me and a few of my friends.
A third computer, this time an M1 Mac Mini that is my Plex box. It's running the latest version of macOS Ventura and runs all the *arrs and qBittorrent. It also runs Plex itself, because it's one of the only computers that I found that was low power enough but still supported hardware transcoding in Plex. I've been meaning to find a replacement for it running Linux + an AMD GPU (I have an rx470 sitting around somewhere), but no real good deals have turned up.
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Chat client for seedbox w/multiple users
You can just run ZNC then connect to it on a local client like HexChat. Here at RapidSeedbox, we support Pidgin and I can say it's quite simple to use.
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2021 Jun 14 Stickied ππππππππ thread - Boot problems? Display problems? Networking problems? Need ideas? Get help with these and other questions! π³πΆπΆπ² π―π¬πΉπ¬ ππ°πΉπΊπ»
NOTE: the extent of my previous usage of a pie is running a ZNC bouncer over SSH for IRC server that I'm a part of and while I have plenty of background with 120+ volt electrical systems, this is my first electronic hardware project
What are some alternatives?
Kiwi IRC - π₯ Next generation of the Kiwi IRC web client
Quassel IRC - Quassel IRC: Chat comfortably. Everywhere.
Convos - Convos :busts_in_silhouette: is the simplest way to use IRC in your browser [Moved to: https://github.com/convos-chat/convos]
Weechat - The extensible chat client.
InspIRCd - A modular C++ IRC server (ircd).
Glowing Bear - A web client for WeeChat
YiffSpot - A real-time web chat for "yiffing" randomly with other furries anonymously.
Shout - Deprecated. See fork @ https://github.com/thelounge