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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Is IRC still that popular? I mean it’s all Discord and Matrix etc these days (not saying that’s a good thing, I f’in hate Discord)

What kind of channels are you in if I may ask?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I run Circe in Emacs because it's lightweight and integrates with the modeline for not overly distracting notifications.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Weechat. Terminal based, flexible scripting system using a handful of languages, still actively developed, and I can make it work the way I want it to work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Seconded. Weechat and Gomuks for matrix chat.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

irssi. the plugin stuff is nice, terminal is better than GUI, and when themed it doesn't look terrible

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I run irssi on a Raspberry Pi. It has everything I need.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I use Quassel hosted on my server.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The Lounge. Very convenient to use.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Already coming up close to 10 years of The Lounge! Really gets the job done nicely as long as you don't hate webapps. By far the least broken option for mobile unless you go IRCCloud.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I use the web client of libera.chat and I love it because convenience!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Same. I used mIRC back in the 90's, but ever since I started dabbling with servers I preferred to have an irssi client running inside a screen session somewhere. Allowed me to catch up on things that happened while I was AFK, as well as provide some continuity while I was on the move and/or on a dodgy connection.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I use Hexchat. It’s a fine GUI a client, simple and reliable. I use a ZNC bouncer so no need to keep a CLI client running 24/7.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Same. Hexchat + znc = peak of software development

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Just to let you know, Hexchat is no longer maintained, unless someone has forked it. Might be worth looking into alternatives.

https://hexchat.github.io/news/2.16.2.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Aw drat. That sucks. Thanks for pointing that out

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Has IRC been getting many new features recently? It kind of feels like the sort of thing where software can become "finished".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

IRCv3 has extended IRC quite a bit over the past decade, fixing a lot of minor pain points if clients support the fixed versions of the protocol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I mean yeah, Hexchat does work pretty well and is kind of finished. But it's possible there are existing security vulnerabilities or new ones to be discovered in the future.

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