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Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client

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380 points culinary-robot | 9 comments | 15 Oct 25 11:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom

I started working on Halloy back in 2022, with the goal of giving something back to the community I’ve been a part of for the past two decades. I wanted to create a modern, multi-platform IRC client written in Rust.

Three years later, I’ve made new friends who have become core contributors, and there are now over 200 people idling in our #halloy channel on Libera.

My hope is that this client will outlive me and that IRC will live on.

1. Daunk ◴[15 Oct 25 12:32 UTC] No.45591401[source]▶
I've tried to use this, but I'm on multiple servers with tons of channels, and it gets a bit unwieldy without tabs. I also can't get it to minimize to tray, and having to "keep it open" at all times is somewhat annoying. I'll stick with Quassel for now.

Really impressive work though, you should be proud!

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2. mi100hael ◴[15 Oct 25 15:26 UTC] No.45594037[source]▶
Agreed on the tabs. Not sure what I'm supposed to do when I have more than 1-2 channels I want to view.
3. its-summertime ◴[15 Oct 25 15:35 UTC] No.45594194[source]▶
to have it act a bit more tabishly, https://halloy.chat/configuration/actions.html#buffer can be set to "replace-pane"
4. tcdent ◴[15 Oct 25 18:26 UTC] No.45596598[source]▶
What channels are still active? I connected to freenode for the first time in years a few months ago and it was a ghost town. Would love to get back into some programming/tech communities on IRC.
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5. fuzzzerd ◴[15 Oct 25 18:29 UTC] No.45596625[source]▶
Freenode melted down a few years back, there was a lot of drama around what happened, but I don't think it's active anymore and if it is, it's probably not what you remember. The community splintered and moved to other hosts.
6. QuantumNomad_ ◴[15 Oct 25 18:29 UTC] No.45596627[source]▶
https://www.vice.com/en/article/major-internet-projects-are-...

A lot of users left freenode in 2021.

Many moved to Libera.chat instead. While others may have moved on from IRC altogether when they left freenode.

7. thek3nger ◴[15 Oct 25 20:45 UTC] No.45598195[source]▶
I added this configuration to make it works more tab-like.

    [actions.sidebar]
    buffer = "replace-pane"
8. johnny22 ◴[15 Oct 25 20:49 UTC] No.45598238[source]▶
tabs are the reason i abandoned my halloy experiment. I'm currently following the halloy issue.
9. korse ◴[16 Oct 25 21:01 UTC] No.45610618[source]▶
Come to rizon. Start with #chat and branch out from there. Lurk moar.