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Re:Irssi 1.0.0 Released by peteretep on Friday January 06, 2017 @01:29AM (#13334393) 

    > Why but just run a bouncer
    > like znc
Same reason I stopped running my own mailserver and mutt; there are a limited number of things I have bandwidth for, and I'd much rather pay a tiny amount of money for someone else to Just Do It, and do it right. Also mobile.
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Re:Irssi 1.0.0 Released by unhammer on Friday January 06, 2017 @09:56AM (#13336656)
It's quite a bit easier to run a bouncer than a mailserver! With mail, you have to worry about handling spam, and whether your messages are delivered or blocked, and all the setups are really involved.

With Weechat, as long as you manage to add a server from the UI and then `/relay add ssl.irc 8000`, you typically just need a script that runs `tmux new-session -d weechat` on startup. And it has mobile clients.

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Re:Irssi 1.0.0 Released by malteof on Friday January 06, 2017 @03:58AM (#13334845)
https://riot.im/ has an IRC bridge! It works quite nicely.
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