I do...
Was in late 1990's with mIRC and in a server that used to share music and videos. The very first song I downloaded was LOUDNESS' "Crazy Night" (in a horrible quality) and lasted like 6 hours downloading. LOL. #Internet#Mirc#IRC#Undernet#mIRC666#MP3#1990s
@adiz lol my bad - my tut client mixed up the threads.
The only alternative I see to Matrix right now is XMPP. I still run my own server. But it doesn’t come even close to compete with the number of available bridges (that’s actually the main thing I use Matrix for).
The only thing that can still compete with Matrix when it comes to bridges/integrations is still IRC+bitlbee. But that ecosystem is literally falling apart, it’s largely based on libpurple extensions that often haven’t been touched in years, and of course you can forget decent mobile-native clients.
Or maybe just run alternative servers to Synapse, but so far I’ve had a mixed experience with them - Conduit is definitely snappier, but I’ve had trouble to set up many of my bridges, which seem to be primarily designed for Synapse.
@fabio@adiz Are you following slidge development yet? For me it offers pretty much everything I might need in terms of bridges except for #IRC, but Biboumi already exists to take care of that one.
Slidge doesn't look very mature yet, but given some time it may be the thing we were missing. I wouldn't mind some cleaner #XMPP clients for desktop use either, but the existing options aren't all terrible at the least.
here's an interesting thing I found you can do with the #irc webportal The Lounge: you can easily add parameters to the link for it to drop someone nearly directly into a chat.
We're looking for some new maintainers to join the org 👀
Our GTK port is currently minimally maintained, due mostly to our reliance on the Colloid theme as our base.
We'd ideally use a more flexible base, or write the theme from scratch. This means we'd welcome maintainers who have pre-existing knowledge with GTK theming.
@catppuccin#SourceHut is free software and has CI capabilities. Discussions in email have worked fine for decades, and still works for quite large projects.
As for real-time chat, #IRC still exists, and doesn't even need me to register an account to ask a question. There's plenty of good webclients to keep the barrier lower than Discord could ever do. Creating a bot for IRC is perhaps one of the easier tasks an aspiring programmer could work on. I have no clue what "forum channels" are supposed to be, but I'm quite certain it is not a required feature to develop software.
It seems incredibly bad faith to pretend these things don't exist or aren't known about.
RRC appears to defy neutrality principle, as Ukrainian officials criticise ‘weak response’ and accuse Red Cross of being advocate for Russian aggression
finally have my #irc server running about the way I want. next thing will be linking it up to another server to create a tiny little irc network.
it really isn't hard to set up either this ircd (ngircd) or one of the alternatives in debian, the only thing I have issues with is how it interacts with #systemd when you try to restart it. but that's a systemd thing. and maybe I'm just bad at that.
otherwise you can just install the package and have a working irc server just like that.
replaced the #irc daemon I have running on my small machine with ngircd, which turns out to be much easier to configure than inspircd, and then stopped working once I tried to restart the service. #systemd man, I just can't...
finally logged into tilde.club today, which is such a neat concept but seems a bit dead. at least at the times when I tried to visit it.
on the other hand I got znc and an irc daemon running without problems and now have my private bouncer for... oh... well, lets face it, #IRC is hardly the chat system of choice by now.
but I can use it and that's neat.
Am I the only one who thinks #discord is just one giant mess in which almost everything gets lost in the noise. How did we come to this situation where everyone relies on this single, centralized chat service?
@AngryAnt yes, like #rocket.chat or even #irc, but more and more open source projects, including #godot rely on #discord which is not accessible for a very very large part of the human population....
@someodd I use them for different situations. #irc is used for public rooms of community projects. #xmpp is good for private messaging and gateways to legacy networks.
Going back to Konversation for GUI stuffs. DCC file send/receive is kinda important to me. For everything else, including a lot of Matrix usage, WeeChat is still the Kewlist :p
Honorable mention goes to Halloy, which I think looks really good, supports tiling, and says it supports DCC Send - I don't mind manipulating config files by hand, and I might check it out with a FlatPak, but if I'm sufficiently impressed it looks like I'll have to build the .deb and SlackBuild myself, ... Well? Somebody's got to! Right?
<anon> this @sun posts some great content holy shit
<ullard> that's moon's new account, the admin, i love him
<anon> but he's called sun
<anon> not moon
<anon> so its someone else
<ullard> oh yes you're right, how stupid ofr me
<anon> no worries
<anon> we all make mistakes
<anon> except me
Red Cross decides against suspending Russian branch despite links to Kremlin war machine (www.theguardian.com)
RRC appears to defy neutrality principle, as Ukrainian officials criticise ‘weak response’ and accuse Red Cross of being advocate for Russian aggression