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- MarkCole 11y agoHey there, I'm an admin on the IRCAnywhere help channel (Gnasher), and a friend of the creator. The project is currently discontinued. The creator currently has no time outside of work to dedicate to the project and make updates. Due to a lack of other contributors / pull-requests there won't really be much other development. If it interests you though, feel free to fork it or submit a pull-request. If they're good/appropriate I'll get it checked out and possibly merged in.
- widforss 11y agoWouldn't it be appropiate to update the website to account for this?
- MarkCole 11y agoIt would perhaps be best, up until today the website got only a trickle of traffic so no one bothered with it. It will probably be updated in the coming week or two to reflect the current status.
- evolve2k 11y agoI suppose the next obvious question is, Anyone in the community that would be willing to take this on?
- KuchenKerze 11y agoWill there be a sync of the read status of all messages? That is the feature that I need, the backlog is next to useless without me knowing where I stopped last time.
- MarkCole 11y agoAt the moment no further development is planned at all. So if you want this feature I'm afraid you'll have to build it yourself or find an alternative. There have been multiple mentioned in the thread, one in particular I have heard good things about is Shout-IRC.
- luastoned 11y agoHow does this compare to http://shout-irc.com http://shout-irc.com
- wrboyce 11y agoAnd https://www.irccloud.com https://www.irccloud.com One obvious difference is that IRCAnywhere is a discontinued product!
- shock 11y agoHomepage states: "IRCAnywhere is designed to be an open source alternative to paid services such as IRCCloud"
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- nilkn 11y agoIt seems that IRCCloud also offers mobile apps with push notifications, so IRCAnywhere may not be a complete replacement.
- corobo 11y agoAnother is that irccloud is not free!
- spirit555 11y agowell, there's a free tier that lets you keep 2 connections + irccloud's server. you just have to keep a web browser open somewhere to avoid the 2 hour timeout. but yea ive always felt their $5 / month plan was a little overpriced. for mobile irccloud's app is fantastic. i dont know if any of these solutions mentioned here even has one
- mathgeek 11y ago> a free tier that lets you keep 2 connections + irccloud's server. you just have to keep a web browser open somewhere to avoid the 2 hour timeout. Someone learned their business model from 90's shareware. :)
- shurcooL 11y agoDoes anyone know how this compares to WebIRC [0]? [0] https://github.com/pavben/WebIRC https://github.com/pavben/WebIRC
- NamPNQ 11y agoJust see feauture of it and compare
- sbt 11y agoI am all for using an open source alternative to Slack. But IRC is not it. What we need is a modern, open standard for persistent group chat ala Slack, with security features. I am not saying sit down and draft papers, writing code that can become a standard is fine. Maybe Mattermost is it, I don't know.
- penetrarthur 11y agoTotally relevant to this post.
- kuschku 11y agoThis exact text has been posted here dozens of times... Looks like Slack is astroturfing.
- mathgeek 11y agoObviously that post is a bit off-topic, but anyone following HN regularly likely inferred that this topic is in response to the recent "Slack vs. IRC" debate that's been going on.
- penetrarthur 11y agoNo, it is not.
- mathgeek 11y agoWhat is not? All I said was people likely inferred something.
- phillc73 11y agoRocket.Chat perhaps? https://rocket.chat/ https://rocket.chat/
- mtgx 11y agoThere's also https://kiwiirc.com https://kiwiirc.com.
- aexaey 11y agoNeat idea, although I would probably stick with irssi[1] running on my server and connecting with mosh[2] to that for mobility with instant session resume. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irssi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irssi [2] https://mosh.mit.edu/ https://mosh.mit.edu/
- lorenzhs 11y agoI don't know if you've seen it, there is a fork of Glowing Bear that works with irssi instead of weechat. I don't know how complete it is (I work on the weechat version), but if you're interested, check out my other post and #glowing-bear on freenode!
- lorenzhs 11y agoIf you're already running weechat, you might be interested in checking out Glowing Bear which accomplishes a very similar goal, but without reinventing the weel - it simply connects to you existing weechat (probably running on a server somewhere). https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear https://latest.glowing-bear.org https://latest.glowing-bear.org One of the biggest advantages of this approach is that you get the whole functionality of a mature IRC client. You also don't have to trust a third party with your data, as you're connecting to your own client, no middleman involved. It's just a bunch of static files.
- baldfat 11y agoPersonally I run weechat on a small home server I have and run it in tmux and just ssh into it.
- xt 11y agoGlowing Bear is helpful on mobile devices without hardware keyboards, still.
- lorenzhs 11y agoI run it on a small dedicated server (kimsufi) in tmux. But instead of sshing into that, I connect to it with Glowing Bear which feels much nicer to me. I also like the mobile support (I use it a lot on my Android phone and my iPad). For Android, we even have a "native" app (using cordova). It's very convenient to have IRC on the go, with synced read marker states and a pleasant interface.
- baldfat 11y agoI'll give it a try. Thanks for replying back.
- heine 11y agoReminds me of http://quassel-irc.org/ http://quassel-irc.org/ which is not really a beauty but is working good enough for me at the moment. (I'm just a user, not related to the project in any way)
- richardboegli 11y agoYou beat me to it :) Only issue is that it has problems running on Windows 10, otherwise I might be using it. http://bugs.quassel-irc.org/issues/1376 http://bugs.quassel-irc.org/issues/1376 Been looking at quassel and weechat
- saltspork 11y agoThere is also a new effort to develop a web interface for Quassel. https://github.com/magne4000/quassel-webserver https://github.com/magne4000/quassel-webserver
- scandinavian 11y agoThe quassel-client can be styled with a CSS like syntax: http://bugs.quassel-irc.org/projects/1/wiki/Stylesheet_Gallery http://bugs.quassel-irc.org/projects/1/wiki/Stylesheet_Galle... I use DarkMonokai: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Zren/2779042/raw/DarkMonokai.qss https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Zren/2779042/raw/DarkMono... The default is not pretty ugly though, I agree.
- AUmrysh 11y agoI use Quassel, it works fine for me (Windows 7, Windows 10, Linux, and Android). I like it but it gets updated kind of slowly.
- softinio 11y agoWhy doesn't the project owner look to pass it onto a new maintainer to move it forward?
- MarkCole 11y agoThis was previously discussed in the IRC Channel on Freenode. None of the people that have contributed have shown interest in taking over the project. And the majority of the community we have don't know their way around JS/Node outside of installing it on their server.
- bilekas 11y agoI mean no disrespect here when I say that I have tried IRC anywhere and it is quite good, but as I'm sure you're aware the code maintainability is limited at best. There are workarounds, hacks and shortcuts taken here and there. Im not saying a full rework would be required but there are some of the fundamental issues to be taken care of. If a team was willing to take it over (should the current owner allow), it would require a substantial investment of time. Would the current owner // maintainer be open to the possibility of monetisation of a particular feature set // plugin system ? Something like own-cloud, whereby you could purchase a monetisation version to which you could have paying clients on your deployment. While the free version would not have this particular feature. Thoughts ? Edit: The paid feature may also have the associated mobile app also etc. You'd be surprised the interest and community you would accumulate with a financial incentive.
- MarkCole 11y agoI believe a plugin system was in the works, so paid plugins and the like might be a possibility. There would without a doubt be a lot of work to do on it, it's been over a year, and Node itself has changed dramatically not to mention ember. As I've mentioned to other people in the thread, if you throw me an email at the address in my HN profile, I will gladly forward it / your questions.
- ryan-c 11y agoAnyone know of anything like this that integrates well with ZNC?
- aroch 11y agoJust set autoclear to off for your replays, and anything that can connect to IRC becomes like this
- oldmanjay 11y agoIs this part of the "you must hate slack!" series we're currently all enjoying so much?
- oldmanjay 11y agoAssuming it is, it's a bit amusing to see so many people continue to miss the point. The market for Slack and HipChat is not organizations looking to work harder to maintain their own solutions that ultimately provide less to them.