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Self hosted ‘The Lounge’ is great.
Yes TheLounge is fantastic but I switched to Convos these days because it’s lighter weight and I somehow manage to overrun my disk much less often :)
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Is IRC still that popular? I mean it’s all Discord and Matrix etc these days (not saying that’s a good thing, I f’in hate Discord)
What kind of channels are you in if I may ask?
IRC’s not as popular as in its heyday, and while once it was the main choice for multi-playing gaming chat (Quakenet et al), that’s largely gone elsewhere, but it’s still very good for certain technical channels.
IRC has also proved to be remarkably resistent to commercialisation, mostly due to the users. Even when one of the biggest networks, Freenode, got taken over by a drug addled mentalist Reference who started insisting all all kinds of strange things, the users just upped sticks and created a new network. A bit of fuss, but the important stuff stayed the same and it’s continued much as before as a new network, Librenet.
I am still active in some private irc servers. The communities haven’t changed much since the golden era of irc.
Discord is closed source and has no way to easily archive/record conversations. This makes it unsuitable for a lot of open source projects who need a chat client. I’ve not used much Discord but potentially the “gamer” culture might put people off.
Matrix seems good but it’s not quite there yet from what I can tell. It’s got way more features than IRC but none of them seem to work that well. Like a swiss army knife full of blunt tools.
For IRC I’m on the libera.chat server. Usually hanging out in the gentoo channels since I use that distro. There are a lot of different channels for the various devs, user tech support, niche uses like gaming* and also offtopic chat channels.
*More gamers tend to use other linux distros for some reason
It is. It’s obscure enough for the normies to stay away. Which is its main feature
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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.
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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.
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Is mIRC still a thing? Do people still use it? Gosh I feel old.
I downloaded it not that long ago and worked great!
I was gonna say this is my favorite, with IRCn on top. It’s been a while since I connected. Is EFNet still around?
That’s the first one I thought of as well. And your third point, too… Haha
I remember back in day, my friends would learn how to script only to modify their mIRC and have some sick startup animations and music.
Then MSN Messenger showed up.
For Windows I like 0irc. It’s extremely lightweight and portable. For a browser alternative, KiwilIRC works in a pinch.
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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.
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.
Aw drat. That sucks. Thanks for pointing that out
Haven’t tried halloy, but it sounds cool, I wish rust build with shared libs in mind, instead of everything link statically, but it sounds interesting, I’ll see how it is compared to srain which is my current choice…
hexchat, also Konversation
irssi. No explanation necessary
