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105 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 30 Oct 25 02:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source
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qudat ◴[30 Oct 25 10:45 UTC] No.45758466[source]▶
IRC is having its second wind as far as I can tell. Libera is very active and it offers an experience that is unlike the over-stimulating chat apps like discord.

Some projects have both a discord and an IRC channel and when you compare the two chats the conversations are wildly different — IRC being a more focused, on topic chat without floods of gifs, emojis, and off-topic channels.

The hardest part about using IRC is getting chat history and mobile notifications. As part of https://pico.sh we run a soju bouncer (soju.im) for our members to use to help with that. We have a bunch of daily active users.

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1. MisterTea ◴[30 Oct 25 16:45 UTC] No.45762072[source]▶
> The hardest part about using IRC is getting chat history and mobile notifications.

Its not hard if the client isn't monolithic. I use ircs/ircx on Plan 9 which is a two part client: server that maintains connection to a network and channels the user joins. The server buffers incoming messages to a flat text file while the client just attaches to these buffers. I have a CPU server running 24/7 at home so it runs the server half and I can run the client on as many terminals as I want. It might be too simple but that is what I prefer.