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At one stage when there was an outage about a year ago, folks at work were scrambling around trying to get HipChat resurrected (which we'd been using prior to m
by Twirrim 7y ago
At one stage when there was an outage about a year ago, folks at work were scrambling around trying to get HipChat resurrected (which we'd been using prior to moving to Slack).
I had an ircd of some description installed, configured and ready for use in under 3 minutes, and started to get my team using it as a stop gap measure. Had that rolling long before either the outage was resolved, or the HipChat server was resurrected. People forget just how stupidly easy it is to set up IRC.
- cloverich 7y agoDo you have a recommended server / client? The last time I tried to use IRC (joining an existing chat) I actually had quite a bit of trouble, and ended up just giving up.
- geggam 7y agoirssi for a client Freenode runs this one for a server. https://github.com/freenode/ircd-seven https://github.com/freenode/ircd-seven
- notnull 7y agoInspircd is pretty easy to set up (as a server). Hexchat is a great client, Weechat is great for a commandline client. If you have server access you can also set up Kiwi which is a webclient, making it easy for those with less tech prowess to connect.
- LinuxBender 7y agoFor ages, I ran unrealircd [1] and anope [2] services. One could put TheLounge [3] (web front end with redis) in front of it for persistence. Not as easy as inspire to set up, but rock solid and feature rich. [1] - https://www.unrealircd.org/ https://www.unrealircd.org/ [2] - https://www.anope.org/ https://www.anope.org/ [3] - https://thelounge.chat/ https://thelounge.chat/