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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by dvirsky on Sunday July 10, 2016 @08:10AM (#12065366)
The only problem about it for me, is that having search and offline messages is not possible by default. I'm using IRC for the #redis community channel, and joining a discussion after my laptop has been in my bag for a couple of hours is not really feasible.
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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by giancarlostoro on Sunday July 10, 2016 @08:56AM (#12065451)
To my understanding you can setup Quassel as a bouncer on a server, so when you reconnect it will update all you missed, you just need a cheap VPS or another desktop to connect through elsewhere. Some channels also have searchable logs via bots as well. Ironically BotBot.ME which is powered by redis doesn't have a bot at #redis but oh well...
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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by wcummings on Sunday July 10, 2016 @11:08AM (#12065822)
That's not out-of-the-box
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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by rurounijones on Sunday July 10, 2016 @11:19AM (#12065869)
It is on linux. Ubuntu has the combined client and the separate client / server ones ready to go.
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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by fcanela on Sunday July 10, 2016 @11:18AM (#12065863)
There are other out-the-box alternatives. IRCCloud was mentioned in comments.
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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by skrowl on Monday July 11, 2016 @01:31PM (#12072700)
IRCCloud disconnects you after 2 hours of idle time unless you pay them
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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by eatonphil on Sunday July 10, 2016 @11:16AM (#12065854)
Personally, I have a tiny VPS running weechat, tmux, and mosh that let's me keep history and stay connected 24/7.
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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by kichuku on Sunday July 10, 2016 @07:55PM (#12067873)
can you please elaborate more? I am looking to setup something similar. I have minimal linux knowledge and I have done a basic setup of weechat+screen.
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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by eatonphil on Monday July 11, 2016 @08:04AM (#12070427)
Sure, here's how it works with tmux:

1. Install weechat, tmux, mosh

2. Make sure firewall allows mosh

3. Start a named tmux session (tmux new -s weechat)

4. Start weechat

5. Detach session (Ctrl-a d)

6. Connect using mosh and attach the session (mosh myvps 'tmux a -t weechat')

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