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I agree with the praise for IRC, but I don't see what you need grove for. There's mibbit, irccloud and a few other web IRC clients, all of which seem quite a bi
by moe 15y ago
I agree with the praise for IRC, but I don't see what you need grove for. There's mibbit, irccloud and a few other web IRC clients, all of which seem quite a bit more advanced than grove. And for the server-part; why not hop onto freenode, make a private channel - and off you go?
If you insist on private server then that shouldn't take someone linux-savvy more than 15 minutes either.
You literally type 'apt-get install inspircd', tweak two and a half values in the config file (to enable SSL and set a server-password) - and that's it. An irc-daemon is not exactly maintenance-heavy, mine has been running for over a year without a blip.
- dools 15y agoFirstly, you're not actually allowed to use freenode like that, technically it's supposed to be for open source projects right? Secondly, I wouldn't run a server application like that on a publicly accessible server without learning pretty thoroughly about how to configure it securely, ymmv obviously but I just wouldn't do it. Thirdly, there are a bunch of web configuration options that allow non-technical folks to login and do a bunch of stuff. If my client were paying me to do that for them they'd blow their Grove.io budget by an order of magnitude or two each month.
- rhizome 15y agoSo don't use Freenode. EFNet has had invisible, keyed channels since forever.