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Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client

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380 points culinary-robot | 4 comments | 15 Oct 25 11:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.982s | 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. nmz ◴[15 Oct 25 23:39 UTC] No.45599703[source]▶
Why is this "modern"?
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2. donio ◴[16 Oct 25 03:34 UTC] No.45601182[source]▶
The extensive IRCv3 support for one thing. chathistory support in particular is a big one for me since we rely on it on my personal server.

If you scroll down to the Features section on the linked page that gives a good overview.

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3. guerby ◴[17 Oct 25 01:11 UTC] No.45612426[source]▶
Hi, I'm used to save locally chat history of channels I'm listening to.

In hexchat GUI client chat history is locally found in a simple text file, one line per message in .config/hexchat/logs/irc.libera.chat/xxx.log

However I've found no option to create such a log with halloy, am I missing something in the documentation?

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4. guerby ◴[17 Oct 25 01:22 UTC] No.45612479{3}[source]▶
Found https://github.com/squidowl/halloy/issues/91