Based on our record, Kiwi IRC should be more popular than ngIRCd. It has been mentiond 6 times since March 2021. 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.
> At that point you've just reimplemented a less-standard version of matrix with extra steps though. There are IRCv3 specifications that allow this richer experience, and they are at least as standard as Matrix. Check out https://ergo.chat/ with modern clients like https://sr.ht/~emersion/goguma/ (Android), https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/gamja/ https://kiwiirc.com/ (web), or https://git.sr.ht/~taiite/senpai (TUI) >... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
First try the web-based ones - https://kiwiirc.com/ - https://mibbit.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago
Their IRC link is on their homepage. If you don't have an IRC client you can use https://kiwiirc.com/ in browser. Source: about 2 years ago
It depends. There's a lot of people on/around IRC who really like it (see libera and all the other networks), and yeah there definitely are people spinning up new smaller networks. Especially with things like https://sr.ht/~emersion/gamja/ and self-hosted https://kiwiirc.com/ , as well as really polished client experiences like irccloud, it's easier to convince people to join in. Right now I'm working with a dev... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
Since it's a local install, I would use ergo as the server. For the client I would set up a web based client, either KiwiIRC or The Lounge. Source: almost 3 years ago
This won't likely help after the fact but I would suggest separating Artwork discussion into their own Discord server and then move all business partners and certainly financial information discussion with employees into private self-hosted servers so that one has control over the server, chat filters, IP/domain blocks and even approved/denied web links. It's not perfect and some may not be happy about... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
I am pretty sure nobody except nerds knows what IRC is right now. It's long since been supplanted by user-friendlier group chat services. I agree with this. Like I mentioned this is slowly changing with web front-ends to IRC like TheLounge. NGIRCD [1] + TheLounge [2] take all of about 10 minutes to set up and then maybe another 10 minutes to tie that into and configure IRC services such as Anope. I would... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
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