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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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