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Ooh, if you're open to suggestions, my number one frustration with IRC goes like this: I'm connected and happily chatting, but then my Wifi blips and I'm discon

Ooh, if you're open to suggestions, my number one frustration with IRC goes like this: I'm connected and happily chatting, but then my Wifi blips and I'm disconnected. There's no chat log, so I don't know what I missed. And on crappy connections, this can happen pretty frequently. I know there are programs that'll keep you online and collect chat logs even if you disconnect, but it seems ridiculous to have to set up a server just so I can chat. If you fix this problem, I'd happily fork over at least $10/month, maybe more.

Fauntleroy 14y ago
I have plans for something like that in the future, but first I'd like to perfect the client itself (a persistent connection would require a server). For now you can always try out https://www.irccloud.com https://www.irccloud.com or https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway
- glomph 14y ago
  https://github.com/leedo/alice https://github.com/leedo/alice is another one. Used to be hosted but they stopped running it.
shawn-butler 14y ago
There have been irc bots for as long as there has been IRC. Eggdrop bot is a common one, open source, etc.
StavrosK 14y ago
Shameless plug here as well, I'm developing something that will sort of solve that problem for channels you own: http://www.getinstabot.com http://www.getinstabot.com
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OGC 14y ago
> I'm connected and happily chatting, but then my Wifi blips and I'm disconnected. There's no chat log, so I don't know what I missed. And on crappy connections, this can happen pretty frequently. So a bouncer + web interface, huh? I'd better get to work..
guruz 14y ago
During my time inside Trolltech/Nokia, everyone was on Freenode and our internal IRC server. A lot of people were connected through a client called Quassel [0] which is basically a distributed IRC client you can access from multiple machines (-> you'd host it on a server, it stores the backlog and everything else for you). In my current startup we have the same (internal IRC server) and we also thought offering Quassel hosting [1] is a good idea. [0] http://www.quassel-irc.org/ http://www.quassel-irc.org/ [1] http://quassel.woboq.com/ http://quassel.woboq.com/

Fauntleroy 14y ago

I have plans for something like that in the future, but first I'd like to perfect the client itself (a persistent connection would require a server). For now you can always try out https://www.irccloud.com https://www.irccloud.com or https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway

glomph 14y ago
https://github.com/leedo/alice https://github.com/leedo/alice is another one. Used to be hosted but they stopped running it.

shawn-butler 14y ago

There have been irc bots for as long as there has been IRC. Eggdrop bot is a common one, open source, etc.

StavrosK 14y ago

Shameless plug here as well, I'm developing something that will sort of solve that problem for channels you own: http://www.getinstabot.com http://www.getinstabot.com

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OGC 14y ago

> I'm connected and happily chatting, but then my Wifi blips and I'm disconnected. There's no chat log, so I don't know what I missed. And on crappy connections, this can happen pretty frequently. So a bouncer + web interface, huh? I'd better get to work..

guruz 14y ago

During my time inside Trolltech/Nokia, everyone was on Freenode and our internal IRC server. A lot of people were connected through a client called Quassel [0] which is basically a distributed IRC client you can access from multiple machines (-> you'd host it on a server, it stores the backlog and everything else for you). In my current startup we have the same (internal IRC server) and we also thought offering Quassel hosting [1] is a good idea. [0] http://www.quassel-irc.org/ http://www.quassel-irc.org/ [1] http://quassel.woboq.com/ http://quassel.woboq.com/