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Re: IRCAnywhere

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Wouldn't it be appropiate to update the website to account for this?

It would perhaps be best, up until today the website got only a trickle of traffic so no one bothered with it. It will probably be updated in the coming week or two to reflect the current status.

I suppose the next obvious question is, Anyone in the community that would be willing to take this on?

Re: IRCAnywhere

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I am all for using an open source alternative to Slack. But IRC is not it. What we need is a modern, open standard for persistent group chat ala Slack, with security features. I am not saying sit down and draft papers, writing code that can become a standard is fine. Maybe Mattermost is it, I don't know.

Re: IRCAnywhere

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Hey there, I'm an admin on the IRCAnywhere help channel (Gnasher), and a friend of the creator. The project is currently discontinued. The creator currently has no time outside of work to dedicate to the project and make updates. Due to a lack of other contributors / pull-requests there won't really be much other development. If it interests you though, feel free to fork it or submit a pull-request. If they're good/a…

Will there be a sync of the read status of all messages? That is the feature that I need, the backlog is next to useless without me knowing where I stopped last time.

Re: IRCAnywhere

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Hey there, I'm an admin on the IRCAnywhere help channel (Gnasher), and a friend of the creator. The project is currently discontinued. The creator currently has no time outside of work to dedicate to the project and make updates. Due to a lack of other contributors / pull-requests there won't really be much other development. If it interests you though, feel free to fork it or submit a pull-request. If they're good/a…

Will there be a sync of the read status of all messages? That is the feature that I need, the backlog is next to useless without me knowing where I stopped last time.

At the moment no further development is planned at all. So if you want this feature I'm afraid you'll have to build it yourself or find an alternative. There have been multiple mentioned in the thread, one in particular I have heard good things about is Shout-IRC.

Re: IRCAnywhere

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post #12

I am all for using an open source alternative to Slack. But IRC is not it. What we need is a modern, open standard for persistent group chat ala Slack, with security features. I am not saying sit down and draft papers, writing code that can become a standard is fine. Maybe Mattermost is it, I don't know.

Totally relevant to this post.

Re: IRCAnywhere

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How does this compare to http://shout-irc.com

From what I see, shout-irc does not allow you to stay connected on IRC channels when you are offline or close your browser.

Re: IRCAnywhere

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And https://www.irccloud.com One obvious difference is that IRCAnywhere is a discontinued product!

Homepage states: "IRCAnywhere is designed to be an open source alternative to paid services such as IRCCloud"

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