4 ms·
It was replaced by Slack last year. Sigh ... We still use IRC in some upstream communities although it has been replaced by Matrix in some (which is also terr
by rwmj 1y ago
It was replaced by Slack last year. Sigh ...
We still use IRC in some upstream communities although it has been replaced by Matrix in some (which is also terrible).
- ahartmetz 1y agoMatrix the protocol seems fine, but client software seems to be all web views or (weirdly) imitating the look of web views.
- mananaysiempre 1y agoFractal for GNOME is neither, and it’s decent.
- rwmj 1y agoI want a text only client, running in a terminal. I don't care that I won't be able to see the pictures & animations - in fact that's an advantage.
- skydhash 1y agoThe emacs client is nice, ement.el, is nice. And there's probably a weechat plugin somewhere.
- jasonjayr 1y agohttps://weechat.org/ https://weechat.org/ -- supports matrix (as well as IRC).
- rwmj 1y agoYes this is fair. I'm even using Weechat for IRC & Slack, so I just need to get around to setting it up.
- ahartmetz 1y agoIt does look and work very much like a web view. I just tried it.
- mananaysiempre 1y agoUh, how?.. It’s a conversation window with a contact list to the left, with GNOME-standard (libadwaita) look and feel. If you want separate conversation windows (like ICQ or Pidgin), then I understand the desire, but it’s pretty much orthogonal to web-view-ness (also very rare these days regardless of protocol).
- ahartmetz 1y agoMaybe Adwaita looks like that, I don't know. But there is a ton of whitespace, lots of clickable UI elements that look just like regular text, that kind of thing.
- crinkly 1y agoWe moved off IRC to Slack ages ago. Then they decided Slack was too expensive so we were forced to Teams which is bundled with the inescapable O365 license. We now use IRC again (UnrealIRCd) which runs on a debian VM on someone's workstation in the office. Clients are all irssi on WSL2 or Macs.
- nasretdinov 1y agoirssi is surprisingly decent, and would even makes you think IRC the protocol was designed around irssi (and TUI), although the protocol is actually much older