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.
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.
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.
irssi. the plugin stuff is nice, terminal is better than GUI, and when themed it doesn't look terrible
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?
IRC's not as popular as in its heyday, and while once it was the main choice for multi-playing gaming chat (Quakenet et al), that's largely gone elsewhere, but it's still very good for certain technical channels.
IRC has also proved to be remarkably resistent to commercialisation, mostly due to the users. Even when one of the biggest networks, Freenode, got taken over by a drug addled mentalist Reference who started insisting all all kinds of strange things, the users just upped sticks and created a new network. A bit of fuss, but the important stuff stayed the same and it's continued much as before as a new network, Librenet.
I am still active in some private irc servers. The communities haven't changed much since the golden era of irc.
Convos - self hosted web based client written in Perl of all things, because it's small, simple, does exactly what I want and no more, and avoids my having to faff with client + bouncer which was getting old 10 years ago and feels positively withering now.
https://convos.chat/
I run Circe in Emacs because it's lightweight and integrates with the modeline for not overly distracting notifications.
imagine a pejorative term for women with the letter "x" appended to it
the client hasn't been updated in a long time, perhaps someone needs to fork it.
It's been dead for a decade, even if it were forked it would still be 10 year old code. There's plenty of good CLI clients like
irssiandweechatstill under active development.Yeah, but I want the irc client with a cussword name that i used to use, not boring old irssi
Haven't tried halloy, but it sounds cool, I wish rust build with shared libs in mind, instead of everything link statically, but it sounds interesting, I'll see how it is compared to srain which is my current choice...
Hexchat and pidgin. What to do now when they are not supported on wayland?
