Re:IRC Driven – modern IRC indexing site and search engine
by econ on Monday January 13, 2025 @08:48AM
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Long ago I installed dozens of irc clients, joined a few dozen servers, a few hundred channels. Most didn't do well. Then there was kvirc that just sat there at 0% CPU no matter what I did.
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Re:IRC Driven – modern IRC indexing site and search engine
by sho_hn on Monday January 13, 2025 @11:55AM
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Back when I was maintaining an IRC client, my go-to stress test was to hop on Wikipedia's IRC network, where they have a bunch of firehose channels showing edits to Wikipedia stream by in realtime. Both super high load and occasionally edifying :)
Re:IRC Driven – modern IRC indexing site and search engine
by diggan on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:09AM
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> Long ago I installed dozens of irc clients, joined a few dozen servers, a few hundred channels
Maybe mIRC got bloated as of late, but my shitty Windows XP computer could easily handle multiple networks and 50-ish channels per network back in early 2000s, could it really have gotten so much worse since then?
Re:IRC Driven – modern IRC indexing site and search engine
by econ on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:23AM
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I don't actually remember how good or bad mirc was. It was the most popular client at the time but lacked things I don't really remember, it was time to move on. I tried Quassel which was nice but it got slow as the logs grew. Then i tried a lot of clients.