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Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client

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380 points culinary-robot | 2 comments | 15 Oct 25 11:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

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.

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Vaslo ◴[15 Oct 25 13:06 UTC] No.45591858[source]▶
Not sure if this question will get removed but a tangent nonetheless - I’d like to use this but I don’t know what to do with it since the advent of Discord. What do people do with IRC now and where do you find content?

I remember being a high school student and having an amazing physics conversation on IRC that included a description of Flatworld that really fascinated me.

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1. trevithick ◴[15 Oct 25 13:48 UTC] No.45592519[source]▶
I had the same question. I briefly joined the Slackware IRC a long, long time ago when I had questions, but now I wouldn't even know what to do with this client.
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2. culinary-robot ◴[15 Oct 25 15:01 UTC] No.45593674[source]▶
You find a community that shares the same interest as you and start chatting :)