Simplicity of IRC

Group Chat & Notifications Communication Messaging

The Lounge Landing Page
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The Lounge

The Lounge is a web IRC client that you host on your own server.
Pricing:
- Open Source
There are web front-ends to IRC that can mitigate message loss without having to run bouncers. Convos [1] and TheLounge [2] come to mind but there are others [3] [1] - https://convos.chat/ [2] - https://thelounge.chat/ [3] - https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_the_second_half_of_2021/.

#Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging #Communication 38 social mentions
Convos Landing Page
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Convos

Convos is the simplest way to use IRC.
Pricing:
- Open Source
There are web front-ends to IRC that can mitigate message loss without having to run bouncers. Convos [1] and TheLounge [2] come to mind but there are others [3] [1] - https://convos.chat/ [2] - https://thelounge.chat/ [3] - https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_the_second_half_of_2021/.

#Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging #Communication 10 social mentions
DragonRuby Game Tookit Landing Page

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DRG

DragonRuby Game Tookit

Tiny, fast and cross-platform, 2D game engine in Ruby.

The closest I've found to having a modern experience to programming in that manner is DragonRuby Game Toolkit [0]. It's not free (with some exceptions for eligible users and indie game developers), but it does offer a standard version for a one-off payment, which is the version I have. It's sold as a game dev toolkit but it brings back those same memories of BASIC for me. I firmly believe that it could be a very viable method of introducing programming as well. [0] https://dragonruby.org/toolkit/game.

#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine 15 social mentions