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18 years and counting! Still living in IRC. I use the old and humble Irssi as the client with ZNC running on a Debian VM on Linode as the bouncer to maintain a
by susam 3y ago
18 years and counting! Still living in IRC. I use the old and humble Irssi as the client with ZNC running on a Debian VM on Linode as the bouncer to maintain a persistent connection.
It is simple, reliable, and well established. I initially used to hang out on multiple networks like DALnet, EFnet, etc. but I quickly settled on becoming a regular at Freenode and OFTC because those are where most of the free and open source software communities were active.
The biggest recent event in IRC that happened recently from my perspective (user perspective) was the controversial change in ownership of Freenode. I switched to Libera like everyone else. The migration took only about 30 minutes or so: point my ZNC to the new server, register my nick, register my channels, and done!
- nerdponx 3y agoA side benefit of ZNC is that it makes setup on a new machine easy. I don't want to have to remember how to set up CertFP for OFTC, and with ZNC I don't need to.
- catherinecodes 3y agoSame here. ZNC on Debian (apt install znc) on an Entrywan instance. The freenode debacle impacted a handful of my favorite channels. #tcl is noticably quieter and a couple others are still trying to decide whether they're an official channel or not (this affects #channel vs ##channel naming). I'd bet that the number of active users has dropped but I don't have any emperical evidence. If anyone is considering ZNC, here are a couple suggestions to change to the default config: 1. AllowWeb = false (only enable the web interface if you need it) 2. For each channel, add Buffer = 10000 so that you can have history for more than a day or two (the default is quite small) 3. Add these two lines: LoadModule = chansaver LoadModule = clearbufferonmsg to get better history tracking and avoid duplicate messages.
- doublerabbit 3y ago#tcl is now on liberachat although I believe its bridged between. Unless you meant in general. If so, apologies
- catherinecodes 3y agoYes, the new channel, even with the bridges in tact, is still much quieter. Here's an sample from my client logs: $ wc -l tcl2023* | awk '{s+=$1} END {print s/NR}' 116.333 $ wc -l tcl2020* | awk '{s+=$1} END {print s/NR}' 314.556 Less than half the activity before/after according to this non-scientific analysis (my client wasn't always connected and it looks like the logfiles contain topic/names and other output).