Quassel, self-hosted.
It’s old, but removedx.
can’t find any client by that name
imagine a pejorative term for women with the letter “x” appended to it
the client hasn’t been updated in a long time, perhaps someone needs to fork it.
It’s been dead for a decade, even if it were forked it would still be 10 year old code. There’s plenty of good CLI clients like
irssiandweechatstill under active development.
I use Hexchat. It’s a fine GUI a client, simple and reliable. I use a ZNC bouncer so no need to keep a CLI client running 24/7.
Same. Hexchat + znc = peak of software development
Just to let you know, Hexchat is no longer maintained, unless someone has forked it. Might be worth looking into alternatives.
Aw drat. That sucks. Thanks for pointing that out
Has IRC been getting many new features recently? It kind of feels like the sort of thing where software can become “finished”.
IRCv3 has extended IRC quite a bit over the past decade, fixing a lot of minor pain points if clients support the fixed versions of the protocol.
I mean yeah, Hexchat does work pretty well and is kind of finished. But it’s possible there are existing security vulnerabilities or new ones to be discovered in the future.
Irssi all the way
Same. I used mIRC back in the 90’s, but ever since I started dabbling with servers I preferred to have an irssi client running inside a screen session somewhere. Allowed me to catch up on things that happened while I was AFK, as well as provide some continuity while I was on the move and/or in a dodgy connection.
Unfortunately it’s practically unusable for my use case, which is talking in CJK channels on non-UTF8 servers (when the channel name also has such characters), because recode support has been broken for 20 years.
The Lounge. Very convenient to use.
Already coming up close to 10 years of The Lounge! Really gets the job done nicely as long as you don’t hate webapps. By far the least broken option for mobile unless you go IRCCloud.
I use Quassel hosted on my server.
I use the web client of libera.chat and I love it because convenience!
Weechat. Terminal based, flexible scripting system using a handful of languages, still actively developed, and I can make it work the way I want it to work.
Some easy display rules, and a couple of plugins and it’s perfect.
Seconded. Weechat and Gomuks for matrix chat.
Sounds too much like WeChat
If you’re going to not use software because you don’t like a program with a similar name, I really don’t know what to tell you… 🤷♂️
Would you run a distro called Windoze?
I don’t care what it’s called as long as it’s a decent distro and does what I need it to do.
ERC, why leave Emacs?
Because it’s healthy.
I run irssi on a Raspberry Pi. It has everything I need.
Do I have to self host it to make it work or can I just install it on my machine
You can install it on any machine. It’s just a terminal IRC client. I run it on a small home server with
screenso that it’s always on.
irssi. the plugin stuff is nice, terminal is better than GUI, and when themed it doesn’t look terrible
Irssi. It’s extensible and stable, been using it for years.
senpai
You know, I wish I could enjoy IRC - or chatrooms in general. But I just struggle with them. Forums and their ilk, I get. I check in on them and see what’s been posted since I last visited, and reply to anything that motivates me to do so. Perhaps I’ll even throw a post up myself once in a while.
But with IRC, Matrix, Discord, etc, I just feel like I only ever enter in the middle of an existing conversation. It’s fine on very small rooms where it’s almost analagous to a forum because there’s little enough conversation going on that it remains mostly asynchronous. But larger chatrooms are just a wall of flowing conversation that I struggle to keep up with, or find an entry point.
Anyway - to answer the actual question, I use something called “The Lounge” which I host on my VPS. I like it because it remains online even when I am not, so I can atleast view some of the history of any conversation I do stumble across when I go on IRC. I typically just use the web client that comes with it.
I feel the same way. I don’t feel like hanging around for someone else’s conversation to end so I can actually get what the fuck is happening.
