freenode VS WeeChat

I just stumbled across this[0] reddit-style platform. Looks just few days old. [0] https://freenode.net. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

You can use the TextMate mailing list or #textmate IRC channel on freenode.net for questions, comments, and bug reports. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

Holy fuck, what happened? How did Freenode get hijacked by some little twerp whose manifesto is some shit about dRaInInG tHe sWaMp and muh maximum liberty zone? Source: almost 3 years ago

Some hints (root is rasengan): jane_doe: hint the freenode network is its own sovereign state https://freenode.net/#canceling-cancel-culture-or-why-anonymity-is-important. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

The servers were volunteer hosted under no binding agreement, staff were volunteers who never signed any contracts (christel was the only paid person). "freenode" the informal organization existed LONG before "freenode limited" the legal corporation. It would be very VERY hard for "freenode limited" to claim freenode's name as a trademark. However, they own the DNS registration. Despite efforts to be informal... Source: almost 3 years ago

WeeChat[0] with Bitlbee[1] supports a metric assload of services, albeit by pretending they're IRC (which does work - I spent years in weechat/irssi with bitlbee talking to various people on disparate services.) Or if you're just after Telegram/WhatsApp, nchat[2] is ok (I can vouch for the Telegram half only.) [0] https://weechat.org [1] https://wiki.bitlbee.org [2] - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

And UnrealIRCD still rocks. For a quick-and-dirty setup I've deploy ng-ircd but Unreal has always been my go-to for anything serious. If nothing else it can be useful as a backup or internal platform during the rare events that Slack or Discord are having an incident. The common complaint is a lack of channel back-log but it can be front-ended with TheLounge [1] or Convos [2]. I personally prefer to handle... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

With this particular linked page, it's just the change log. The actual website is at https://weechat.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

The link posted was to the dev blog, the actual website can be found at [0]. On the blog, the right side menu under "Links" also links to the website. [0] - https://weechat.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

I’m afraid you’re in the wrong subreddit. This subreddit is dedicated to WeeChat the IRC client., not the proprietary messaging app built by Tencent. Source: about 1 year ago