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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.

1. SomeUserName432 ◴[15 Oct 25 18:43 UTC] No.45596788[source]▶
I can't at the top of my head remember all the minor annoyances I ran into when I tried Halloy, but things like not being able to paste a large message because "it exceeds the single message limit" was a real dealbreaker.

I ended up going for Crossover and mIRC

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2. goku12 ◴[16 Oct 25 09:07 UTC] No.45603097[source]▶
Please file bug reports or feature requests when you find them, if they haven't been filed already. Don't just leave silently. And not just for halloy, but for all FOSS projects in general. The developers/maintainers can choose what to do with them - but they'll at least be aware of the pain points. That too is a contribution to the projects that we use for free.

PS: This assumes that you haven't done so. But even if you did, please leave it as a request to everyone else.