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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 ◴[] 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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asnyder ◴[] No.45593109[source]
#freenode was generally the main IRC node I used with all the good dev rooms.

Seems to still be chugging along. You can even join directly via their web-client: https://freenode.net.

Personally I still use pidgin.im to connect to all the relevant #freenode goodness. Seems people forget it still works and is pretty great even all these years later :).

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crtasm ◴[] No.45593274[source]
I forgot Freenode was still running, most projects left for https://libera.chat/

Due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode#Ownership_change_and_...

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1. asnyder ◴[] No.45595048[source]
Thanks so much for the update. Had no idea. Seems all the main channels moved over. Thanks!
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2. rw_grim ◴[] No.45649403[source]
Most went to libera, some went to OFTC[1], and a few moved to matrix as well.

[1] https://www.oftc.net/