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Awesome IRC
- dotsh 9y agoNo Irssi? No Weechat? Only 3 networks? You definitely need contributions to this list. :)
- craftyguy 9y agoI'm fairly sure they'd accept pull requests for changes..
- entelechy0 9y agoI came to say irssi, glad you beat me to it
- rapfaria 9y agoThe fact that it missed irssi is just a sign of the "awesome" hype.
- indigodaddy 9y agoDoesn't seem even possible to have a page like this that omits these two...
- davisonio 9y agoAbsolutely they are the founding fathers of IRC clients
- piracykills 9y agoYeah, especially since weechat with its custom relay protocol replaces the bouncer and has a great mobile client too.
- davisonio 9y agoBig fan of WeeChat
- davisonio 9y agoVery true...took a while to compile what I have so far but looks like I missed a few popular ones.
- gpmcadam 9y agoHmm ... - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/IRCd_software_implementations3.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/IRCd_sof... - https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- prophesi 9y agoThere's nothing wrong with there being more implementations of ircd. Each one is based on the same protocol, with their own additional features. The XKCD comic would be relevant if they were implementations of -different- protocols.
- progval 9y agoA problem with IRCds is that a lot of them are very similar (charybdis, ratbox, ircd-seven, hybrid), which duplicates the efforts needed to fix bugs and add features, for very little benefits. And the benefits each fork has generally is extra non-standard modes, which complicates work on the client-side. For instance, +q is a channel owner (= someone very powerful) on UnrealIRC, but it's a muted user (= kind of a ban) on ircd-seven
- prophesi 9y agoTrue, anything non-standard will complicate things. But it shouldn't complicate much, since the core functionality is standardized. Accidentally alerting the user that he's now a channel owner instead of a muted user is a trivial issue. EDIT: Also, there's work on getting modern irc server features added to the protocol, which could possibly standardize those additional modes. https://ircv3.net/ https://ircv3.net/
- progval 9y ago> Accidentally alerting the user that he's now a channel owner instead of a muted user is a trivial issue. But it's not if you accidentally make someone an owner instead of muting them. > EDIT: Also, there's work on getting modern irc server features added to the protocol, which could possibly standardize those additional modes. https://ircv3.net/ https://ircv3.net/ Yeah, the IRCv3 Working Group is doing great work
- iforgotpassword 9y agoI started using quassel a while ago. The idea of having core and GUI separated is great. Bouncers have always been a kludge, never thought of when the protocol was designed. Bouncers and plugins/scrips for clients bend over backwards trying to streamline the experience, with mediocre results. Quassel created a new protocol that core and GUI talk, so when running multiple GUI instances on several machines all the open networks, channels, queries and backlogs are synchronized. The backlog even loads in chunks infinitely when scrolling up. Although the client lacks some minor features I got used to over the years with xchat, in general I'm quite happy with it.
- progval 9y agoThe IRCv3 working group (ZNC in particular) introduced several specifications to make bouncers integrate better with IRC clients.
- mabynogy 9y agoIRC is fast. IRC is simple. IRC is textbased. A programming channel I'm always on: https://qchat.rizon.net/?channels=#/g/dpt https://qchat.rizon.net/?channels=#/g/dpt
- cup-of-tea 9y agoThe emacs client, ERC, is surprisingly great. I use irssi, though. I honestly haven't thought about changing tools for IRC for at least ten years. It's basically perfect.
- icc97 9y agoI was pleasantly suprised by Kiwi IRC [0] on that list. It's the closest I've seen to being a Slack replacement. [0]: https://kiwiirc.com https://kiwiirc.com
- buovjaga 9y agoContributors are currently working on a refresh of the UI for the next-gen Kiwi. PreviewBot announces new builds of the design concept on #kiwiirc, so we can spy on the work in real time: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/#irc://irc.freenode.net/kiwiirc https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/#irc://irc.freenode.net/kiwii...
- zomg 9y agoeggdrop didn't make the bot list. how the world has changed.
- davisonio 9y agoHappy to accept a request for it if it's good...never used it myself though.
- kapitanluffy 9y agoIs firrre still active?
- buovjaga 9y agoAll systems seem to be operational: http://status.firrre.com/ http://status.firrre.com/
- kapitanluffy 9y agoI mean, will they still accept signups?
- buovjaga 9y agohttps://firrre.com/sign-up/ https://firrre.com/sign-up/ "IMPORTANT NOTE: We have temporarily suspended all signups to make way for some new developments and fixes. We understand your frustration. Thank you for your support!"
- davisonio 9y agoBelieve so but development is slowing
- davisonio 9y agoThanks for the submission @buovjaga. Happy to merge any PRs into the list with your ideas!