Top 3 C irc-server Projects

bitlbee

4 587 3.9 C

An IRC to other chat networks gateway :bee:

Project mention: How Beeper Mini Works | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-05

ah didn't realize it had gone away. its successor appears to be [0]
now I'm reliving the chaos of the late-00s/early-10s instant messaging apocalypse when AOL sunsetted AIM. Clients like Trillian were absolutely necessary before AIM shut down. Everybuddy was a good linux-friendly client. When I still spent time on IRC, I really really liked Bitlbee [1] with ERC [2].
(I'm not saying that there's a connection there, but rather that all the chat protocols started getting used less around the same time for the same reason, which was smartphones becoming commonplace in late-00s.)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayttm
[1] https://www.bitlbee.org/
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/erc.html

unrealircd

4 401 9.3 C

Official UnrealIRCd repository. Downloads are available from our site
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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
lbbs

1 32 9.5 C

Lightweight BBS For Linux - Bulletin Board System server software

Project mention: FLaNK Stack Weekly 12 February 2024 | dev.to | 2024-02-12

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