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The biggest problem for me in IRC is lack of good mobile clients. You can't get push notifications and if you want to stay persistently online then you need to

The biggest problem for me in IRC is lack of good mobile clients. You can't get push notifications and if you want to stay persistently online then you need to keep a perpetual battery-draining socket open. You could setup a relay on your server ,but it's cumbersome and too technical for most people.

baroffoos 7y ago
The best solution I have found is to use Riot/Matrix and connect to the channel via an irc bridge. That way you get a modern app/protocol which works on mobile. A better solution again would be to an actual matrix room for your foss projects.
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pbui 7y ago
My wife uses thelounge (self-hosted instance) as a progressive web application on her Android phone. It supports push notifications and file uploads. Before this, she used IRC Cloud, which also has a convenient mobile application with those features. As for myself, I use Weechat-Android (for about 6 years now) and am very happy with that on my Android phone. It uses a websocket with SSL, so I get notifications and it uses very little battery (or data).
- me551ah 7y ago
  IRC cloud is paid with a monthly subscription right? Are you using weechat as a relay for the Android client or is it a standalone irc client? Cause to receive notifications a websocket will still have to be always connected.
  - pbui 7y ago
    > IRC cloud is paid with a monthly subscription right? That is correct, although there is a free tier, which my wife used for a while. The only major downside to the free tier is that IRC Cloud disconnects after two hours of idle activity. > Are you using weechat as a relay for the Android client or is it a standalone irc client? Cause to receive notifications a websocket will still have to be always connected. The former. I have a weechat instance (it is a terminal IRC client) on a VPS (the same one also running my wife's instance of thelounge) that I normally use when I'm on my laptop. On my phone, I use Weechat-Android as a relay client to the weechat instance. So the websocket connection on my phone talks to my weechat relay. Fortunately, Weechat-Android handles connecting and disconnecting seemlessly, and I don't have a problem with notifications.
AndroidKitKat 7y ago
I use ZNC with the znc-push module. It supports a ton of different services, but I use it with Pushover. Notifications come in on time even when my phone is deep sleep.
- AndroidKitKat 7y ago
  As for my mobile app, I use an app called Palaver on my iPhone.

baroffoos 7y ago

The best solution I have found is to use Riot/Matrix and connect to the channel via an irc bridge. That way you get a modern app/protocol which works on mobile. A better solution again would be to an actual matrix room for your foss projects.

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pbui 7y ago

My wife uses thelounge (self-hosted instance) as a progressive web application on her Android phone. It supports push notifications and file uploads. Before this, she used IRC Cloud, which also has a convenient mobile application with those features. As for myself, I use Weechat-Android (for about 6 years now) and am very happy with that on my Android phone. It uses a websocket with SSL, so I get notifications and it uses very little battery (or data).

me551ah 7y ago
IRC cloud is paid with a monthly subscription right? Are you using weechat as a relay for the Android client or is it a standalone irc client? Cause to receive notifications a websocket will still have to be always connected.
- pbui 7y ago
  > IRC cloud is paid with a monthly subscription right? That is correct, although there is a free tier, which my wife used for a while. The only major downside to the free tier is that IRC Cloud disconnects after two hours of idle activity. > Are you using weechat as a relay for the Android client or is it a standalone irc client? Cause to receive notifications a websocket will still have to be always connected. The former. I have a weechat instance (it is a terminal IRC client) on a VPS (the same one also running my wife's instance of thelounge) that I normally use when I'm on my laptop. On my phone, I use Weechat-Android as a relay client to the weechat instance. So the websocket connection on my phone talks to my weechat relay. Fortunately, Weechat-Android handles connecting and disconnecting seemlessly, and I don't have a problem with notifications.

AndroidKitKat 7y ago

I use ZNC with the znc-push module. It supports a ton of different services, but I use it with Pushover. Notifications come in on time even when my phone is deep sleep.

AndroidKitKat 7y ago
As for my mobile app, I use an app called Palaver on my iPhone.