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Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by burchr »

Congrats to the team! Long time irssi user here, I've tried to move to several other clients over the years (for change's sake rather than any real reason), but nothing ever "stuck" with me.

Relatedly to this happy news, a gentle plug for a project I was involved in: https://github.com/rburchell/irssi-relay

irssi-relay allows you to connect weechat's relay clients to an irssi instance. I don't think it's gotten much use outside the few of us that work on it, more eyes are of course welcome.

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by marsrover »

kovek wrote: post #49
marsrover wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm also glad to see IRC still going strong. I much prefer IRC to StackExchange (not to diminish StackExchange, it's an amazing website) when looking for answers to questions. Not because I always get an answer, but when I do it's pretty quick and it's nice to have a direct conversation with the person who is helping. In addition, there are a lot of nice little channels out there that are just fun to hang out in.

How do you discover nice little channels that are fun to hang out in?

I've found that $"{someOpenSourceProject}-offtopic" sometimes works.

Other than that, I just see people mention channels sometimes and I join them.

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by wcummings »

ticoombs wrote: post #34
jdcarter wrote: post #20

Happy to see IRC still going strong. While I switched to irccloud.com a couple years ago--persistent session is so nice, especially for mobile!--I used CLI clients for years before. Amusing blast from the past: back in the 90's I worked at General Magic, and wrote my own IRC client [1] for our handheld devices. I attached a Metricom wireless modem to the bottom of mine and could be on IRC from anywhere ; it was like…

Why but just run a bouncer like znc? I even have push notifications when I get tagged or a add a special keyword.

No mobile clients that adaquately supports server-time / playback. I use znc+rcirx w/ some hacks to support server-time, but I still use irccloud on my phone.

I can get push notifications to my phone with a ZNC module so that's not really the hold up.

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by godmodus »

lacampbell wrote: post #46

Can anyone compare it to weechat? Never used irssi but weechat is my client of choice these days since my old client fell victim to the whole gtk2/gtk3 thing.

Apples and oranges - wee Is gui. Irssi is cli.

It's "wee" - so it's minimal. Does a good job for its niche.

Cli chat clients are more flexible, with all the complexity that brings with it - but they're usually robust. Command line graphics don't change much :)

gui ones less so, but learning curve is not as steep. That said Xchat is hard to compare to weechat again, as it's a full fledged gui IRC client, rather than a minimal one. (multi network, multi server, dcc/xdcc and scriptability) and it's robust in its own niche.

Been using irssi for years now, and can't say I know/utilise all it offers, but it's great to log in to my server and screen -x into my irssi session.

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by pimeys »

kovek wrote: post #49
marsrover wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm also glad to see IRC still going strong. I much prefer IRC to StackExchange (not to diminish StackExchange, it's an amazing website) when looking for answers to questions. Not because I always get an answer, but when I do it's pretty quick and it's nice to have a direct conversation with the person who is helping. In addition, there are a lot of nice little channels out there that are just fun to hang out in.

How do you discover nice little channels that are fun to hang out in?

For me, you join them 10 years ago and never leave. The same people are still there, maybe some new ones joining every now and then. People find them out by other people asking them to join. My favorite entertainment is definitely this one Finnish music channel, where the chat can be hilarious at any given time.

In these channels there's people who've been there for almost 20 years. Sadly I parted ages ago from the channels I was chatting in the 90's. But I guess they're still there.

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

fredsir wrote: post #41
ticoombs wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why but just run a bouncer like znc? I even have push notifications when I get tagged or a add a special keyword.

Is it push notifications as in notifications pushed to your android/ios device? If so, how did you set it up?

I run a persistent irssi session accessible via SSH on a RPi at home, and I use this awesome irssi script + Android app to get push notifications for PMs/mentions: https://irssinotifier.appspot.com/

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by pimeys »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #33
jdcarter wrote: post #20

Happy to see IRC still going strong. While I switched to irccloud.com a couple years ago--persistent session is so nice, especially for mobile!--I used CLI clients for years before. Amusing blast from the past: back in the 90's I worked at General Magic, and wrote my own IRC client [1] for our handheld devices. I attached a Metricom wireless modem to the bottom of mine and could be on IRC from anywhere ; it was like…

Does it not bother you that irccloud can see everything you type/read on IRC?

Every client and every server can log everything in IRC. You don't do private chats in there.

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by benjiweber »

fredsir wrote: post #41
ticoombs wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why but just run a bouncer like znc? I even have push notifications when I get tagged or a add a special keyword.

Is it push notifications as in notifications pushed to your android/ios device? If so, how did you set it up?

You can get push notifications with server side irssi in tmux/screen and IrssiNotifier on Android.

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by [deleted] »

fredsir wrote: post #41
ticoombs wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why but just run a bouncer like znc? I even have push notifications when I get tagged or a add a special keyword.

Is it push notifications as in notifications pushed to your android/ios device? If so, how did you set it up?

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