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Re: Show HN: A browser-based IRC client built on Node.js – first Node project

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Post by staller »

It might be a stretch to call it "world's most modern" IRC client when it looks like a pretty generic client.

I really think at some point the word modern just won't make sense in the same sentence as "IRC".

I think as your first node project it looks pretty cool though.

Re: Show HN: A browser-based IRC client built on Node.js – first Node project

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Post by aroch »

yaddayadda wrote: post #2

@ _redwire It'd be nice to see a functional demo site. It'd also be nice to have a direct link to the github repository - https://github.com/redwire/aIRChat Why zip instead of npm distribution?

Looks like they do have a link in the footer (`Github` is linked):

    All of the source material is hosted on Github, and contributions of all kinds are welcome!

Re: Show HN: A browser-based IRC client built on Node.js – first Node project

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Post by _redwire »

yaddayadda wrote: post #2

@ _redwire It'd be nice to see a functional demo site. It'd also be nice to have a direct link to the github repository - https://github.com/redwire/aIRChat Why zip instead of npm distribution?

Thanks for the suggestions! I used to have aIRChat running as a web service straight off the VPS hosting its official website, but I encountered a lot of trouble when people started connecting over it, as many IRC networks apparently limit the number of connections allowed from a single source. Having exceptions made for each network would have been a considerable challenge. There is a link to the repository under the "contributing" section of the main site, but you're definitely right that I should have something more obvious. I'll do that! I'm really not familiar with how NPM works, and I wanted to try to make the distribution as simple as possible for all users on all OSs, so I figured distributing everything the user needs in one package and providing an install script was the best I could do with my limited knowledge of package distribution. I'm definitely open to ideas about more convenient methods!

Re: Show HN: A browser-based IRC client built on Node.js – first Node project

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Post by _redwire »

staller wrote: post #3

It might be a stretch to call it "world's most modern" IRC client when it looks like a pretty generic client. I really think at some point the word modern just won't make sense in the same sentence as "IRC". I think as your first node project it looks pretty cool though.

> It might be a stretch to call it "world's most modern" IRC client when it looks like a pretty generic client. Haha, I definitely agree. I'm just trying hard to pitch it to people who might be less familiar with other clients. The word "modern" means a lot to people, it turns out.

> I think as your first node project it looks pretty cool though. Thanks so much!

Re: Show HN: A browser-based IRC client built on Node.js – first Node project

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Post by iancarroll »

aroch wrote: post #7

Any reason why airchatter.net and www.airchatter.net point to different IP's. Also, your SSL is a little messy and you're vulnerable to Heartbleed: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=airchatter.ne...

CCS != Heartbleed

Re: Show HN: A browser-based IRC client built on Node.js – first Node project

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Post by euank »

Other browser-based irc clients written in nodejs:

KiwiIRC - Probably the most used of them. https://github.com/prawnsalad/KiwiIRC

Subway - I've been following this one for a bit because it look promising. It's nice. https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway

nirc - This one is pretty simple and I'd say a little less polished than yours, but still does a lot of things right. https://github.com/cjstewart88/nirc

If anyone knows of others, I'm interested.

I'd also like to plug glowing-bear (https://glowing-bear.github.io/glowing-bear/) since it's a rather cool project. It's an entirely static html5 frontend to weechat.

Re: Show HN: A browser-based IRC client built on Node.js – first Node project

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Post by RKoutnik »

euank wrote: post #9

Other browser-based irc clients written in nodejs: KiwiIRC - Probably the most used of them. https://github.com/prawnsalad/KiwiIRC Subway - I've been following this one for a bit because it look promising. It's nice. https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway nirc - This one is pretty simple and I'd say a little less polished than yours, but still does a lot of things right. https://github.com/cjstewart88/nirc If anyone…

relay.js is also nice: https://github.com/Fauntleroy/relay.js
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