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ngIRCd 27 is released, a lightweight Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server software. (social.tchncs.de)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14931443

More than three years have passed since the last release of ngIRCd – a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for small or private networks – and more than 130 individual patches have accumulated in the Git “master branch” in the meantime. Some are cosmetic, some bring new functionality, others improve the documentation or fix bugs. All in all, it’s more than time for the next “big” release of ngIRCd!

And here it is, ngIRCd release 27! 🎉 https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/releases/tag/rel-27

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why not? There aren't really any good alternatives out there if you want a chat without gifs and embedded images and videos and all that stuff that requires basically a whole web view to render it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can you name any popular web-only chat platforms that do not have a (even third-party) way to use the service from the command-line or a simple GUI app? I can't...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

If by "simple GUI app" you mean something that has an embedded web browser then no, otherwise pretty much all of them unless you count the kind of third party clients that might broken at any moment by the platform because they have just reverse engineered the protocol and are not taken into account by the platform at all when making changes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. And IRC allows one to very quickly ask a tech question via web IRC chat or IRC client without having to sign up somewhere (Discord, Matrix, Mattermost and so on).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

for me bigest issue is to switch from something else

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

IRC by itself is really ancient and certainly has drawbacks but given the amount of mobile apps, desktop apps and web apps for it and the fact that anyone can easily join as guest without needing to hand out any information (email address, name, phone number) is hard to beat. Things like Discord, revolt.chat, Matrix, SimpleX Chat, Session and team chat like Mattermost, RocketChat, Zulip have their users and its benefits in the open source world.