I’ve been enjoying chatting on IRC and was wondering if anyone has any relevant experience with any bouncers?
I tried setting up ZNC but could not get any clients to work with it.
I finally settled on soju with goguma as client, but since no up-to-date Docker container existed, I had to create my own Dockerfile for that.
For now, it’s only available on my LAN (proxied through nginx), and am uncertain if exposing it externally is a good idea (I already have a VPN, but prefer to expose services if it’s safe to do so).
IRC is pretty dated and dead. The only people still using it are die hards, for the most part.
Matrix is probably the new IRC, XMPP close second. There is literally no reason to keep using IRC except habit.
If you’re looking for a more community based experience, get into mesh hubs or something.
I’ve been on IRC long before the stone age (so to speak) and its neither dated nor dead.
Not everyone needs the fancy audio, video and imagery that new protocols provider for. Some of us are content with just text. And for me thats the great value of IRC.
We all have our own opinions :)
Can you give more details about mesh hubs? A quick search only returns stuff related to wifi.
@just_another_person @bluelion Eh, don’t discount inertia. A lot of debian development channels are still active on IRC.
Yeah, but again…habit and effort.
I can’t think of a single reason that IRC is still used except for people being too lazy to adopt something else.
People still use it for the same reason we use email… Why move an entire community to matrix if IRC works fine? Anyone who wants to use matrix can set up a bridge, anyway. And I wouldn’t consider discord a good alternative.
My point exactly. There are easier and better ways of doing this dated interaction.
If you still don’t understand why people use IRC then we clearly didn’t make the same point, and you misunderstood mine.
I don’t think anyone still recognizes this wisdom you seem to be all about.
Enlightening us with that wisdom would be beneficial to everyone, no?
Quoting my previous comment:
In other words, why “fix” it (and risk fragmenting the community) if it ain’t broke?
Because IRC doesn’t “work fine”.
It’s a 50-year old solution to no modern problems where everything about it has been solved in better ways.