Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by TheCycoONE on Friday June 22, 2018 @10:43PM
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It's not mobile friendly because it requires a persistent connection and eats a lot of battery. That could be fixed with the right bouncer/client combination, but I haven't found it yet.
Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by xPaw on Saturday June 23, 2018 @06:35AM
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The Lounge works very well on a mobile: https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge
Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by TheCycoONE on Saturday June 23, 2018 @11:35AM
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I'll check it out
Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by _emacsomancer_ on Friday June 22, 2018 @08:50PM
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Though setting up an IRC bouncer is not exactly a trivial task. (It's one of the things on my summer to-do list.)
Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by crtasm on Saturday June 23, 2018 @07:57AM
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I recommend also trying Weechat running in screen/tmux on your server, connect to it over SSH.
Znc+mirc did work for me but things like scrollback and access from multiple devices are much nicer now with just my Weechat instance.
Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by _emacsomancer_ on Saturday June 23, 2018 @12:46PM
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I used znc for a bit, but I'm trying to get weechat up and running (but, of course, using Emacs' ERC as my client) on a Rpi.
You can do that with a bouncer. Slack and Discord are essentially a chat server with an integrated bouncer.
> mobile-friendly data usage
How is IRC not mobile-friendly? It only transports the raw text, not even "X is writing a message" notifications.
> first class support for emoji
Most clients support UTF-8, isn't it only a matter of fonts?