cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14931443
More than three years have passed since the last release of ngIRCd – a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for small or private networks – and more than 130 individual patches have accumulated in the Git “master branch” in the meantime. Some are cosmetic, some bring new functionality, others improve the documentation or fix bugs. All in all, it’s more than time for the next “big” release of ngIRCd!
And here it is, ngIRCd release 27! 🎉 https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/releases/tag/rel-27
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A software WHAT? There’s a word missing.
I wonder how it compares with Ergo IRC Server. Seems to take the more minimalistic approach.
Is there Still reason to host irc?
Yes.
It’s still pretty popular for most FOSS communities and the only way to get live support by the community, so yes, very much so.
The big advantage is you don’t need to sign up for anything, zero terms and conditions to agree too, zero personal information to give away unlike Discord which now wants phone numbers and such for most servers.
It’s still pretty popular for most FOSS communities
Do you have examples? Most communities I know are on discord…
Why not? There aren’t really any good alternatives out there if you want a chat without gifs and embedded images and videos and all that stuff that requires basically a whole web view to render it.
Can you name any popular web-only chat platforms that do not have a (even third-party) way to use the service from the command-line or a simple GUI app? I can’t…
Exactly. And IRC allows one to very quickly ask a tech question via web IRC chat or IRC client without having to sign up somewhere (Discord, Matrix, Mattermost and so on).
for me bigest issue is to switch from something else
