IRC History by Jarkko Oikarinen

Re:IRC History by Jarkko Oikarinen by pavel_lishin on Friday February 27, 2015 @11:51AM (#9119832)

> IRC is awesome. The biggest downside is that when you join a channel, you don't get to read all the previous history. In that important feature Twitter/Slack is superior.

I use bip[1], which is an IRC bouncer. I basically connect to networks from a remote machine, and when I hop into IRC, I connect to that machine - which gives me some playback of what's been said beforehand, so I know at least some of the context.

This doesn't solve the 'problem' for joining new channels, but it's nice if you have regular channels you hang out in.

1: https://bip.milkypond.org/ (their cert is broken :/)

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Re:IRC History by Jarkko Oikarinen by iancarroll on Friday February 27, 2015 @12:13PM (#9119956)

ZNC is also a good bouncer (I use it).

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Re:IRC History by Jarkko Oikarinen by pavel_lishin on Friday February 27, 2015 @12:45PM (#9120172)

I used znc for a bit, and switched to bip for ... some reason that I can't recall, now. I think the configuration for bip was easier than znc?

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Re:IRC History by Jarkko Oikarinen by iancarroll on Friday February 27, 2015 @04:28PM (#9121471)

I don't find it hard. The webadmin module lets you configure everything via a web interface if you're inclined to.

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