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This. There's really too much configuration overhead for new people to get started with IRC: registering a nick. Setting up your scripts. Setting up a bouncer.
by wyclif 4y ago
This. There's really too much configuration overhead for new people to get started with IRC: registering a nick. Setting up your scripts. Setting up a bouncer. Etc.
I wish they would concentrate on sane defaults so that more new users could easily be onboarded. Otherwise those people are just going to use Slack or Discord, which is a shame.
- hestefisk 4y agoThe beauty of irc is exactly that it is cumbersome. You don’t need a bouncer, just use /away in irssi running in tmux.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoThis is true, you can totally do that. I like my Quassel bouncer because it gives me a multi-network synced experience between multiple computers and mobiles. I don't really like the way irssi does multi-server support. However I do really miss a text client for quassel. There is an irssi plugin for it, but unfortunately it's unmaintained, and it was never that great.
- wyclif 4y agoWill using `/away` on irssi in tmux prevent join/quit cycling when the laptop goes to sleep? I got banned from a popular channel recently for that. I had irssi open and I myself fell asleep without quitting.