Convos
The Lounge
mIRC
Kiwi IRC
IRCCloud
HexChat
irssi
KVIrc
Fosscord
Revolt.chat
Zulip
Element.io
Matrix.org
BetterDiscord
Discord
OpenAsar
Convos FosscordFosscord might be a bit more popular than Convos. We know about 12 links to it since March 2021 and only 10 links to Convos. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Excellent idea! You'll have a mature, open standard protocol under the hood, with no vendor lock-in, excellent extensibility, and great modern frontends like The Lounge (https://thelounge.chat/) or Convos (https://convos.chat/) to choose from (and you can choose). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
For the other layers one can front-end IRC with TheLounge [1][2] or Convos [3][4]. TheLounge only persists history in private mode meaning that users are created in that front-end and chat messages are in Redis. For small networks or groups of friends this is probably fine. Notably missing is voice chat. I use the Mumble client [5] with the Murmur or uMurmur [6] server which is light-weight enough to run on... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
FWIW TheLounge [1] and Convos [2] can front-end an IRC server giving it much of the look of a modern client and also chat persistence when using TheLounge in private mode. The trade-off in my opinion is scalability. With a bog standard IRCD I can handle tens of thousands of clients per node. Adding web persistent chat adds memory usage. [1] - https://github.com/thelounge https://thelounge.chat/ [2] -... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
IRC is a mature, extensible, open protocol, with a wide variety of server and client implementations to suit many use cases, servers can be self-hosted and federated, and modern web-based clients like The Lounge or Convos offer a user experience equivalent to Discord, Slack, etc. Source: over 1 year ago
And there are some great web-based clients like the Lounge and Convos that offer an equivalent UX to Discord or Slack, are open-source, self-hostable, and based on a mature, reliable, and extensible open protocol. Source: about 2 years ago
What's the issue with clones like FossCord? What exactly should be different? What's "wrong" with the existing solutions? Because you don't mention that at all. Source: about 1 year ago
Also 5 seconds of googling gave me this. Https://fosscord.com/. Source: about 1 year ago
There is also a platform called fosscord, which is literally clone of discord https://fosscord.com/. Source: over 1 year ago
See if this is what you're looking for- https://fosscord.com/. Source: over 1 year ago
There's Fosscord which aims to be a FOSS Discord alternative. Otherwise go for Matrix, Mattermost or Rocketchat. Source: over 1 year ago
The Lounge - The Lounge is a web IRC client that you host on your own server.
Revolt.chat - Don't bother with chat apps that don't respect your privacy. Revolt is a brand new chat platform designed around you.
mIRC - mIRC: Internet Relay Chat client
Zulip - Chat for distributed teams. Zulip combines the immediacy of real-time chat with an email threading model. With Zulip, you can catch up on important conversations while ignoring irrelevant ones.
Kiwi IRC - A hand-crafted IRC client that you can enjoy. Designed to be used easily and freely.
Element.io - Secure messaging app with strong end-to-end encryption, advanced group chat privacy settings, secure video calls for teams, encrypted communication using Matrix open network. Riot.im is now Element.