IRC Today hosted IRC bouncer
24 points by todsacerdoti 6 days ago | 15 comments
  • blkhawk 5 hours ago |
    Quassel IRC is another solution for this - it also works extremely well with the only downside being that it isn't tunneled over HTTP/S by default. Oh and it is self-hosted.

    I can recommend it for a Windows/Linux/Android hybrid environment from personal experience

    • Piraty 4 hours ago |
      it supports core<--ssl-->client setup

      it works well indeed, i run an instance of quassel-core on a VPS for many years and connect to it through wireguard tunnel exclusively (fits nicer in my overall scheme of accessing my services)

    • kuschku 4 hours ago |
      While Quassel's protocol uses encryption, we've actually long considered adding support for running the Quassel protocol over websockets. With the upcoming move to Qt6 that should finally be possible without much trouble. That might solve your issues.

      Personally I think it's silly that the definition of "internet" has shifted so much over the past few years that "it's not HTTP" is now seen as a downside. The internet has finally become the BTX/Telex-style server/client network it was designed to replace.

      In fact, I'm fighting right now with my ISP (O2). They don't want to sell me a business connection. At the same time, they intentionally degrade service to prevent me from hosting services on my private connection. That includes forcefully closing PPPoE connections every 24h, assigning a random new IPv6 range every 24h (but with a valid_lft of 1.438 billion seconds), etc. But they do offer 10 consecutive phone numbers with 3x concurrent calling for private contracts.

  • Snuupy 4 hours ago |
    for self-hosted, look at https://thelounge.chat/
    • blkhawk 4 hours ago |
      That is for web-IRC. Its getting to the same result slightly different than via native apps. Has advantages tho.
    • notpushkin 4 hours ago |
      There’s also https://soju.im/ (which IRC Today is a hosted version of)

      Edit: and the web chat part is https://codeberg.org/emersion/gamja from the same author

  • noamchomsky1 4 hours ago |
    how many people still use irc? sad, but i would have thought discord would have pretty much killed it off.
    • blkhawk 4 hours ago |
      personally I think discord is shit - I wish it would go away. IRC is a lot more resilient towards takeovers and enshittification. look at what happened to slack.
      • cassianoleal an hour ago |
        What happened to Slack, if you don't mind me asking?
    • ninjin 4 hours ago |
      We are somewhere over 260,000 [1] and I am not going anywhere at least.

      [1]: https://netsplit.de

      • throw101010 4 hours ago |
        Just in terms of IRC as a protocol there are actually millions of daily users, many live chat features on the Web (like on video streaming websites such as Twitch) use IRC as a basis: https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/chat/irc/

        Now for that example it isn't a full IRC implementation, but you can use a common IRC client to connect and chat on such services.

    • Piraty 3 hours ago |
      i am annoyed whenever i learn that a popular open source project's (only) real time communication/support channel is on one of the closed platforms; i then chose to not use it.

      i've not encountered projects (relevant to me at least) which moved from IRC to closed platforms, some moved to matrix though (which is only mildly annoying to me).

      Also with the network adoption [0] of ircv3 features like history playback, the need for bouncers on always-on 24/7 machines should decrease

      [0]: https://ircv3.net/support/networks

  • 42lux 4 hours ago |
    I miss the funny bouncer and eggdrop hostnames from the early IRC days.
  • theshrike79 4 hours ago |
    What does IRC Today do that IRCCloud (https://www.irccloud.com) can't?
  • karel-3d 4 hours ago |
    I successfully hosted Convos (yet-another-IRC-client) on fly.io for a few bucks per month. (It used to be free, but then it was not.)

    https://community.fly.io/t/convos-irc-frontend-on-fly-io/188...

    Then I realized I don't really use IRC at all so I turned it off. But, it works. (The lounge might too. I have no idea why I went with Convos, anymore.)