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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by lorenzhs on Sunday July 10, 2016 @10:25AM (#12065670)
Have you had a look at WeeChat + Glowing Bear? The idea is to keep WeeChat running permanently on a server (screen/tmux) and to connect to it from a browser (desktop or mobile). All the logs and highlights will be there, and read status is synced. No cloud, communication is direct between browser and WeeChat via websockets.

Disclosure: I am a maintainer of Glowing Bear. Join us in #glowing-bear if you have questions :)

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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by kuschku on Sunday July 10, 2016 @10:59AM (#12065786)
That’s the same as Quassel + Quassel-Webserver ;)

In the end, as long as the people use a FLOSS IRC client, it’s beneficial for the entire community.

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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by lorenzhs on Sunday July 10, 2016 @11:43AM (#12065941)
Judging by the screenshots it does look quite similar, nice. Do you know whether it works well on mobile? That's one of the main selling points for many users. The tmux+ssh user experience is not that great on mobile :)
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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by kuschku on Sunday July 10, 2016 @02:12PM (#12066512)
Well, for quassel, there's also a mobile app. On the Play Store the beta version is quite neat, and the F-Droid version. The normal Play Store version is from 2013, though.

I - maintainer of QuasselDroid - am currently working on a next version, though, which will take another few months.

For iOS, though, quassel-webserver is the best you'll be able to get, and it's quite meh on mobile.

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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by ultramancool on Sunday July 10, 2016 @12:30PM (#12066124)
The weechat android experience is amazing. I actually switched to weechat from irssi and irssi connectbot specifically for it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubergeek42...

Quassel did not have nearly as nice a client for mobile and I really prefer terminal based clients on non-mobile platforms.

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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by kuschku on Sunday July 10, 2016 @02:12PM (#12066514)
Quassel has QuasselDroid for mobile, and a plugin for irssi for PC.

So, it's comparable.

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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by voltagex_ on Sunday July 10, 2016 @08:28PM (#12068028)
I've since moved to IRCCloud, but when I tried Weechat Android it was very rough around the edges.
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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by lorenzhs on Monday July 11, 2016 @03:48AM (#12069490)
I hear it has improved significantly in the last year or so, development has picked up speed again. And I say that working on the competition ;)
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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by eugeneionesco on Sunday July 10, 2016 @01:59PM (#12066453)
Glowing Bear is friggin' amazing, I've been using it for more than 6 months now and it's pretty much the best irc experience you can get! Thanks!
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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by skrowl on Monday July 11, 2016 @11:51AM (#12071870)
I also use weechat (on cygwin since they don't have native windows builds) + glowing bear. It's great as long as you're at a PC, but it's missing a way to get notifications (for example when you receive a /msg or /notice) when you're away from the PC but have your mobile with you.
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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by lorenzhs on Monday July 11, 2016 @12:03PM (#12071974)
Yeah, that's hard to implement without a central server component or annoying setup. I use IrssiNotifier (despite the name, it also works with WeeChat). It's not great but I get push notifications for highlights on my phone.
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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by skrowl on Monday July 11, 2016 @01:26PM (#12072661)
Yeah, it would have to be a push notification. Running an actual IRC client that had to maintain connection on mobile would destroy your battery.

Anyone aware of anything that works on mobile that does this?

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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by lorenzhs on Monday July 11, 2016 @05:41PM (#12074935)
Well irssinotifier uses Google cloud messaging (is that the current name? The Google push service). It encrypts messages on the server and decrypts them in the client, using a passphrase. It's a technically neat solution but a bit annoying to set up.

It has a script for weechat (and of course irssi), not sure about other clients.

Or you can use pushbullet /..., there should be scripts for any popular scriptable client

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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by detaro on Monday July 11, 2016 @01:29PM (#12072681)
For quassel there seem to be options: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12065792
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Re:Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client by shalomhomes on Monday July 11, 2016 @12:27PM (#12072166)
+1 for Glowing Bear. I haven't been on for anywhere near 6 months but I know I will be eventually.
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