I feel like we will end up with another program that abstracts Slack/Telegram/IRC into neat CLI interface and we will go full circle again. :)
Happy birth day IRC!
IRC turns thirty
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Re: IRC turns thirty
#12If someone was going to install an irc server, which one is recommended? Also, any client reconditions for Windows and Mac?
ircd-hybrid on debian, personally.
Re: IRC turns thirty
#13If someone was going to install an irc server, which one is recommended? Also, any client reconditions for Windows and Mac?
I would recommend ircd-ratbox, which is the fork of ircd-hybrid most used on efnet.
Re: IRC turns thirty
#14very cool. I started with IRC circa 92, on a VAX VMS system after discovering it using Gopher :) Was great, though very addictive. The internet wasn't very well known, and not many people were online, and it was very common to make friends all around the world. I travelled and met a lot of people all over the world through IRC. I remember quite a number of people starting relationships and having babies ( many of whi…
IRC isn't "dying off." Many (many) projects still use it as their main communication channel for developers/users.
Re: IRC turns thirty
#15If someone was going to install an irc server, which one is recommended? Also, any client reconditions for Windows and Mac?
For servers it depends. If you are going all-out, InspIRCd is what I roll. The only complaints I have with it are the massive config file (~2800 lines with the main config and the module config, more if you count the lesser files). The server for getting and going is UnrealIRCd, which is what I used to run. Solid and basic, just with a few less features.
For clients, I use Hexchat, which ill fight for as the best graphical client. The only thing mIRC has going for it is its legacy of scripts and people that still use it. For command line clients, ircii and weechat are good, especially coupled with tmux. I don't use them, but the people that do love them.
Also, if you want a bouncer, ZNC is great. Would highly recommend if you have a free server with a stable connection.
Re: IRC turns thirty
#16If someone was going to install an irc server, which one is recommended? Also, any client reconditions for Windows and Mac?
I like Textual on macOS. It's rather nice. EDIT: Since this seems to be unclear: I was referring to the second question regarding IRC clients.
Have you encountered unicode errors? A Textual user on my server has been crashed multiple times by people doing weird unicode. I don't know if its just him.
Re: IRC turns thirty
#17very cool. I started with IRC circa 92, on a VAX VMS system after discovering it using Gopher :) Was great, though very addictive. The internet wasn't very well known, and not many people were online, and it was very common to make friends all around the world. I travelled and met a lot of people all over the world through IRC. I remember quite a number of people starting relationships and having babies ( many of whi…
IRC isn't "dying off." Many (many) projects still use it as their main communication channel for developers/users.
sure.... I still use it. But now IRC is much much more fringe, somewhat like usenet, ftp, telnet, etc is very fringe these days. It used to be like THE social networking tool. Somewhat like facebook. Maybe one day facebook too will be used by developers to communicate while everyone else is in virtual worlds
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#18It is refreshing to still use a technology which mainly has not been tainted with current crap (share, like, subscribe). You have to deal with some mods on power-trips, but it is rare. Happy thirty!
Not too rare. Several channels are held to their project's Code of Conduct. And some of those CoCs require you to agree to use x-based pronouns when someone requests it, or else banned until you change your mind.
Re: IRC turns thirty
#19It is refreshing to still use a technology which mainly has not been tainted with current crap (share, like, subscribe). You have to deal with some mods on power-trips, but it is rare. Happy thirty!
Not too rare. Several channels are held to their project's Code of Conduct. And some of those CoCs require you to agree to use x-based pronouns when someone requests it, or else banned until you change your mind.
If your go-to example of "mods on power trips" is requiring basic respect for other peoples' personhood and right to their own identity, I'm inclined to agree it's not a particularly large problem.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not too rare. Several channels are held to their project's Code of Conduct. And some of those CoCs require you to agree to use x-based pronouns when someone requests it, or else banned until you change your mind.
If your go-to example of "mods on power trips" is requiring basic respect for other peoples' personhood and right to their own identity, I'm inclined to agree it's not a particularly large problem.
Respect goes both ways. It's not respectful to ask someone to speak differently than what they believe about existence.