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You could do something like this Conversations -> Biboumi -- \ irssi -> znc -> IRC But it has a few gotcha
by louiz 9y ago
You could do something like this
Conversations -> Biboumi --
\
irssi -> znc -> IRC
But it has a few gotchas (like when znc “force-join” a channel, that can’t be done with XMPP, so biboumi will send you an invite instead, that’s confusing), and it quickly gets complicated to manage. You could try that, but you might encounter a few usage issues.
And no, it doesn’t do an IRC->IRC bouncer, so you can’t replace your znc entirely if you still want to use a real IRC client on your desktop.
I think the best solution is to have two independent biboumi and znc.
- zokier 9y agoWould this sort of thing be too convoluted? Conversations -> Biboumi -> IRC / irssi -> bitlbee -´ I suppose some fidelity is lost in the irc->xmpp->irc conversion, but for basic use that might work?
- louiz 9y agoThat will probably work, yes. But that’s also too convoluted, IMO. I would not personally use this. Don’t hesitate to try any combination of gateways you can think of, and report any issues to me.
- joecool1029 9y agoI've been using mutter -> ZNC (with mutter push module) -> bitlbee for some years and it works fine here for basic XMPP usage. EDIT: (I'm on a bunch of IRC servers too so this gives me one app for everything on the phone)
- wcummings 9y agoFair enough, I'll definitely take this for a spin, all the IRC clients available on Android are terrible. If I can't make something like this work I'm going to have to bang out my own "suckless" Android IRC client...
- BoorishBears 9y agoWhat are the pain points in the current Android IRC clients?
- exelius 9y agoIRC requires a persistent connection; cell phones are not good at that since they bounce from network to network. I love IRC but there's a reason Slack is so popular.
- BoorishBears 9y agoI last used IRCCloud when I was on IRC, I know a bouncer could do similar things but I much prefer the 0-config route along with the UI built around it. I'd write a high quality IRC client for Android if there really was a market for it, but Slack feels like it's obsoleted the market (and I have trouble believing this many years into the game there are no good IRC clients on Android, but I haven't checked in a while)
- wcummings 9y agoI use a bouncer, thats not the problem. The problems are bad UIs, bugs, no v3 support, poor scripting support.
- daurnimator 9y agoI don't mind the weechat app (connects to a running weechat instance in relay mode). + glowing-bear works too.