IRC in 2024!?
It's been like 30 years since I last touched IRC.
I want to set up my own IRC server, and an IRC bouncer, and an IRC client. 🤠
How to start? Best, simplest, 100% open source, run on Linux or *BSD: IRC server, bouncer, and client?
Nothing against existing server servicess, but I want to self-host an IRC server, just for fun. Also, for right now, just IRC; no need for integration with other messaging services.
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
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Hell yeah bro bring back the old days!!!!
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Server;
modern - https://github.com/ergochat/ergo (with built in bouncer for your users and other cool shit)
classic - https://www.unrealircd.org/
Bouncer;
https://wiki.znc.in/ZNC
Clients;
GUI - https://hexchat.github.io/ https://konversation.kde.org/
CLI - https://weechat.org/
This is the software I used, all of it is nice.
Also can't mention IRC without mentioning I2P, a great way for anon chatting on IRC
My favorite implementation of I2P: https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd
The Lounge is a really nice modern client that you can host on a very tiny vps (easily alongside other things). Have never messed with the server part of things so not sure on that part!
Take a look at these guys, interesting approach to user run network: https://ircnow.org
How does IRC compare to Discord?
Are EFNet, IRCNet, Undernet and DALNet still going strong?
Guys, how about the Simple IRC Client (sic) from suckless.org?
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"The suckless client sic provides a good tiny irc client but it is a bit too hardcore to use it on a daily basis. First, sic input is driven by a standard fgets and hence, no line editing goodies are supported except the ones provided by the tty kernel driver (^U ^H and friends). Second, sic will mess up the output if a message appears while typing a line. Third, sic does not multiplex channels (but it is a feature!). Finally, I wanted my client to provide infinite scrollback."
-- https://c9x.me/irc/
Now all I have to do is read about libera.chat and actually try it. But, it's getting late here. 😴 So maybe tomorrow.
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Still using IRC on a daily basis.
People are more helpful and nicer than stackoverflow.
Free NAT KVM | Free NAT LXC | Bobr
IRC server: InspIRCd or UnrealIRCd
IRC services: Anope or Atheme (chanserv, nickserv, botserv, hostserv...)
Web gateway: thelounge (all people won't use IRC clients nowaday) - link it with IRC server
Nah, only us, old farts, idle there.
Guys, what do you think about this? It runs on NodeJS! Thanks! Tom
https://github.com/realrasengan/dwebchat
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If you want to run self hosted IRC server I am suggesting you to use some proper solution (InspIRCd or UnrealIRCd as example) in constant development not some hobby projects that come and go.
How did you even find this? According to commit history, this was created just last week!
Websites have ads, I have ad-blocker.
The author posted it to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39730938
I saw it there.
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Trust rasengan at your peril. There's a reason for the "Would it prevent what you did to freenode?" comment.
It is interesting that it auth's against Handshake thought.
LOL, haven't heard/seen that name for some time.
Last I saw him was when he dropped by a private channel I'm in, somewhere in 2021.
Link please! I saw that and looked on Google, but didn't find anything helpful.
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Oh! NVM! I got it now.
Thanks!
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FWIW I seem to have ircII running well enough to connect to Libera and also to a local ngIRCd. Maybe I will try a couple other clients and servers too. It's a re-beginning. . . .
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Sign me up!!!
youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
Looking at UnrealIRCd and Ergo.
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Thanks! Not quite ready yet, but you certainly can get on when it is.
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If you need help with anything, I'm available then.
Have a month off because the last session at school ended, 10th grade from April.
I've had a bit of experience wirh IRC Servers (makes me think, what did I not have experience with?).
youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
I always see Discord as the modern IRC equivalent. And you could argue that Twitter/Threads/Bluesky (aka the text based social media) are too as some IRC channels were not just about real time chat.
I'm not that young, but probably just a bit too young to fully understand IRC. I dabbled in it when I was at high school, but never fully embraced it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/q6k9md/ircfreenode_this_is_not_a_hostile_takeover_says/
Andrew was a really nice guy until he got rich, then something happened and he lost it completely.
You may need to compile ircII yourself to get the latest security fixes. I found this was very easy to do under Debian, however (even making my own .deb).
This is a great news blog for monitoring IRC developments: https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/
I suspect much of that crowd is using Lemmy these days.
Trying isssi. . . .
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isssi doesn't seem to work. Maybe irssi might work.
Edit: irssi works well enough to connect to Libera. . . .
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