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Personally I'm enjoying the return to the "older" kinds of social media. I quite like the ones that are just a text forum with threads focused around a broad to

Personally I'm enjoying the return to the "older" kinds of social media. I quite like the ones that are just a text forum with threads focused around a broad topic that everyone in that community is passionate about. I'm struggling with it, but I'm also trying out IRC. From what I can tell there are still a lot of active IRC users on Libera.

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SllX 3y ago
Speaking of IRC, I just reinstalled Colloquy the other night, only to find out that Colloquy seems to be halfway to being abandonware. I almost couldn't find it because the old website still burned into my memory, colloquy.info just turns up an SSL certificate error and I had thought I got the wrong URL at first, but no, Internet Archive confirmed that's what it was. So it's colloquy.app now, right? You go to that website, and there's two links: the App Store link takes you to an iPad version not verified for Mac OS X and with tons of bad reviews, and the GitHub link is where you can find Mac builds, the latest is 2.5-prerelease-7097 from July 2021 which isn't exactly inspiring confidence that it still has legs. So I mean, if anybody knows what the gold standard on Macs is nowadays I'm open to suggestions, otherwise I might just fire up Irssi and be done with it.
- tga 3y ago
  The experience isn’t amazing, but Mozilla Thunderbird also does IRC and you may have it around already. irccloud.com also used to be nice.
- deafpolygon 3y ago
  The gold standard for IRC anywhere is either; mIRC on windows, or irssi/weechat anywhere else.
  - SllX 3y ago
    Sounds like I’m going the Irssi route then, at least as a fallback if my assessment of Colloquy is correct. I would have preferred something a bit more Mac than Unix, but beggars can’t be choosers. Thanks!
    - deafpolygon 3y ago
      Well, there is a paid app called Textual I used a while back, but I don't know how well-maintained it is these days.
      - SllX 3y ago
        It’s got a website with an up to date copyright year, and the most recent Mac App Store build was July 2021 adding support for Apple Silicon. So maybe not a lot of updates but it’s not flagging my abandonware senses like Colloquy is and there’s a 30 day trial so I can at least poke around and see if the App changes my feelings. I’ll give it a shot. Thanks!

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SllX 3y ago

Speaking of IRC, I just reinstalled Colloquy the other night, only to find out that Colloquy seems to be halfway to being abandonware. I almost couldn't find it because the old website still burned into my memory, colloquy.info just turns up an SSL certificate error and I had thought I got the wrong URL at first, but no, Internet Archive confirmed that's what it was. So it's colloquy.app now, right? You go to that website, and there's two links: the App Store link takes you to an iPad version not verified for Mac OS X and with tons of bad reviews, and the GitHub link is where you can find Mac builds, the latest is 2.5-prerelease-7097 from July 2021 which isn't exactly inspiring confidence that it still has legs. So I mean, if anybody knows what the gold standard on Macs is nowadays I'm open to suggestions, otherwise I might just fire up Irssi and be done with it.

tga 3y ago
The experience isn’t amazing, but Mozilla Thunderbird also does IRC and you may have it around already. irccloud.com also used to be nice.
deafpolygon 3y ago
The gold standard for IRC anywhere is either; mIRC on windows, or irssi/weechat anywhere else.
- SllX 3y ago
  Sounds like I’m going the Irssi route then, at least as a fallback if my assessment of Colloquy is correct. I would have preferred something a bit more Mac than Unix, but beggars can’t be choosers. Thanks!
  - deafpolygon 3y ago
    Well, there is a paid app called Textual I used a while back, but I don't know how well-maintained it is these days.
    - SllX 3y ago
      It’s got a website with an up to date copyright year, and the most recent Mac App Store build was July 2021 adding support for Apple Silicon. So maybe not a lot of updates but it’s not flagging my abandonware senses like Colloquy is and there’s a 30 day trial so I can at least poke around and see if the App changes my feelings. I’ll give it a shot. Thanks!