BitchX forever!! :P
(seriously though, not really, I could never figure out how to actually use that client)
Irssi 1.0.0 Released
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Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released
#72Wow, I've been using irssi for YEARS and they're only at 1.0? I've never understood why projects can't get over that 1.0 hump. I am guilty of this as well.
Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released
#73It's pity that Irssi only support Perl as its scripting language. In contrast, https://weechat.org/ support: Python/Perl/Ruby/lua/tcl/guile/Javascript. UPDATE: I stand corrected.
Why? Perl's not that bad.
And you really want something that has to support all those language stacks? Ew.
Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
it is just a chat client why does it need to support all those languages i understand that Perl5, isn't really exciting anymore but .. i think it's ok
IRC client is useless without a certain degree of extensibility. Having a wide range of scripting language support is important IMO.
You could, you know... learn some perl?
Devs these days, so spoiled
Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
IRC is great. I think I learned more about computing while "wasting time" on IRC game dev channels while I was a student than I ever did at actual university courses.
I remember when Alfred Perlstein (FreeBSD committer) invited me into #bsdcode on EFnet in the late 90s/early 00s after I kept pinging him with random kernel questions. Was fun idly chatting and learning from folk like John Lemon, John Baldwin, Jordan K. Hubbard (before Jobs snatched him up as Director of UNIX technology for Apple (pioneering the BSD element of today's OS X)).
Jordan works for IXsystems (freenas, trueos) now.
Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released
#76Congrats 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…
Wow. I just have to say thank you. I love irssi, but the hassle of sshing from my phone has been an issue. This solved everything. the glowing bear phone app works great, but i couldnt get the weechat android app to work.
Thanks!
Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released
#77Earlier 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?
Join a ton of channels. Lurk for a bit, add things into the conversation. After a month or so everyone will be comfortable with you and you just keep going. More general topic channels like #startups on freenode are a bit easier to be social in. Learn the local rules and the local users. It's like any community really.
Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released
#78Congrats 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…
Wow. I just have to say thank you. I love irssi, but the hassle of sshing from my phone has been an issue. This solved everything. the glowing bear phone app works great, but i couldnt get the weechat android app to work. Thanks!
I think it was working at some point, but I don't regularly use Android, so I don't know what might have changed there.
Please file an issue if you don't mind (and if you can dig in and try to find the problem or even fix it, so much the better!)
Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know, sometimes there's an argument for taking the slow and steady approach. I know it doesn't always jive with the current fad of "move fast, throw in a bunch of js and break things" where everything is obsolete by the time it's released, but there's frankly no need for irssi development to proceed at an urgent pace. The 0.x versions were perfectly usable.
I agree given the project and the usability of prior releases, but you have to admit a 17 year schedule is amusing in todays world.
>you have to admit a 17 year schedule is amusing in todays world
No I don't.
Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree given the project and the usability of prior releases, but you have to admit a 17 year schedule is amusing in todays world.
>you have to admit a 17 year schedule is amusing in todays world No I don't.
Oh ok, 16 year schedule, that's amusing. 17? No. 18? Nope.