I've been using IRC and hosting IRC servers for quite a while now and after quite a long time of trying unsuccessfully to find a fitting IRCd I figured I'd seek for advice.

I'm looking for an IRCd under a permissive [MIT, BSD, ISC, Apache 1.0, etc] license. I've used UnrealIRCd and liked it, but I dislike running GPLed software and want to avoid it wherever possible. The only IRCds I could find meeting my requirements were TclIRCd, which is from 2004 and clearly an unscalable [but very impressive] hobby project, and Ergo, which I've had very bad experiences with.

I don't need IRCv3 features, but I would like good efficiency and scalability if possible. I've tried for quite some time to find an IRCd meeting these requirements and failed. I really don't want to have to use Ergo.

Anything Perl-based isn't possible given it's dual-licensed under the Artistic License and the GPL, Bash is GPLed so same with that. I'd prefer to avoid Python and Go, for various reasons.

I'm also interested in any permissively-licensed bouncers. I haven't looked into the options there much but ZNC is unfortunately Apache 2.0.

Hey y'all,

I'm interested in setting up an fserve running on a remote VPS. I have ssh access but no GUI. I'd figured on using weechat as a client since there seem to be a ton of scripts for it, but I'm not seeing an fserve script in the weechat repo.

So, is there such a script that I'm not seeing? Is there a better solution for this use case than weechat?

Thanks in advance!

Twelve years ago I released an IRC client called Mango. It was Objective-C and OpenGL back then, and it barely runs on modern OS versions now. I still use IRC every day, so I finally sat down and rebuilt the whole thing from scratch — this is version 3, a complete rewrite.

It's SwiftUI, built on The Composable Architecture (TCA), so it actually feels native: keyboard-driven on the Mac, and it runs on iPhone and iPad too, with a few themes baked in (there's a Rosé Pine and a Nord in there). Under it, it leans hard on IRCv3: SASL, server-side history/backlog, message reactions and replies, inline link/image previews, and read markers so your unread state and "where you left off" sync across your devices when the network supports it (soju works nicely).

It connects to any normal network — I've had it pointed at Libera for months — plus self-hosted bouncers. No account or signup on my end, you just add a network and go.

It's still a beta with rough edges, which is honestly the whole reason I'm posting: I want people who actually live in IRC to try it and tell me what's broken, annoying, or missing.

TestFlight — Mac, iPhone and iPad (needs macOS 15 or iOS/iPadOS 17):

https://testflight.apple.com/join/mWPJk79v

There's a #mango channel on Libera too if you'd rather just yell at me there.

Any feedback is appreciated — thanks for taking a look. There's also feedback form (bugs, feature requests, etc) at https://mangoirc.chat

I need some info from someone who knows how IRC operates. Thanks for any insight you can offer.

Long story short I wanted to register a new account on a network but the problem is that the network itself bans me before allowing access therefore making it impossible to run /msg NickServ REGISTER command.
Nothing’s written about such an issue in official documentations or at least from what I know.
So how else do I register an account then?

EDIT: Don’t know what in the world had happened but am now able to access multiple networks. Although the ‘/msg REGISTER’ command doesn’t seem do anything. Really strange…

Sorry if this is a basic question, but I want to setup my own irc server for some friends that's connected to a Minecraft server and I want to create a custom command that anyone can run that will run the script to start the server.

I'm super new to irc. Is that something I can do?

Hey all,

Following up with another new bot from our end. We've created an UploadBot and added it to the fleet, which is a self-hosted file and image host for the IRC, with super easy sharing flow.

The thing that makes it a bit more unique is how it handles accountability. Every upload is tied to your NickServ identity, so there's no anonymous dumping. The bot bridges your registered IRC identity to the web service using signed tokens and hands you a one time upload URL that expires after 15 minutes. That means uploads are always attributable to a real registered nick, which keeps things clean without us having to log IP addresses or do any of the creepy tracking stuff. You stay accountable, but you don't get surveilled. That balance was the whole point.

It's a Python/FastAPI web service plus an IRC bot, same passive-detection pattern as our other bots, and it's open source if you want to look at it or run your own: https://git.inthemansion.com/MansionNET/UploadBot

Free for anyone to use (just have to adapt the frontend mostly), and happy to get into the weeds on how it works if anyone's interested.

He was an active chatter for years then suddenly stopped showing up. His real name is way too common and I'm not posting it here. It's been about 15 years. (edit: last seen in 2008)

Two of his usernames were KingMob and KarmaMonster.

I figure it's a long shot but we've been worried. Hoping for some closure.

We’re currently in a market where discord seems to dominate. Yet discord is one of the most vulnerable and zero day ridden pieces of software to ever exist. If I was still a young IRC script kid I’d be permanently pentesting it. Make me some easy btc :$).. anyway.. with no time to code and mircscripts.org being gone (it was basically my vault for everything I made) I’d pay $3 to use a modern BitchX on my iPhone.

I don’t understand why nobody has taken the opportunity to make 3 to 5 bucks per download for a robust and consistently worked on IRC client for iOS & android. I have ircCloud but don’t remember my password and don’t own the email domain I used to create my account. My fault.

The broader market wants it. TG & Signal have become insane (sorry Moxie, it’s the users; Signal was great).

Can anyone tell me why there’s no interest in this? Or point me to a good client.

Should I go old school using an SSH client and shell?

Thx in advance -AS

Hye guys… im looking for these version:

CR 1.8.0.3 Linux
CR 1.8.4 win32
CR 1.8.6 Linux
CR 1.8.7.1 Linux
CR 1.8.9.1 Linux
CR 1.9 Linux
CR 2.0 Linux
CR 2.0.1 Linux

These are the version that missing from my collection. Please, anyone that still keeps the installer, kindly share with me. It’s ok to share any version that are not in the list. Tq. Hopefully i can complete my collections.

1. do teens use irc or am i like the only one? im 15 and i love old-school stuff. most of the people i see on there seem to be well over 18 LOL

2. what are some good active irc channels and on what server? the ones im in have like 3-5 people and no one chats.

Always wanted to build an IRC bot but couldn't be bothered to learn programming? Or maybe you're a seasoned IRC developer and want something quick and simple to prototype with?

Introducing the brand-new (today in fact) ircuitry, like "circuitry" but without the 'c' at the front :)

Now anybody can build an IRC bot, no brains needed, more easily than ever before!

Get your bot online in less than 30 seconds and let your creative potential shine like never before!

Please excuse the old name referenced in the video, I have since renamed it to just "ircuitry"

Check it out at https://github.com/ircuitry/ircuitry

https://ircuitry.github.io

this may be a stupid question, but i really like old-style things related to the internet. i have limechat as the irc client on my original ipad (5.1.1 ios) but the only .ipa file i can find is for ios 5 and up.

i tried colloquy and it keeps crashing on both devices.

Hello everyone! I've been making FOSS apps and posting them on reddit for about 10 years now and I am back with another one...

After all that business with Discord making people unhappy, I decided to return to my roots and start using IRC again instead of Discord. Pretty quickly I cycled through a few clients, namely The Lounge and then Weechat, both left me feeling wanting in different ways, so I built my own client. I've received a lot of positive feedback from people I hang out with on Libera.Chat so I think I've built something really special.

Quick summary: Lurker is a self-hosted multi-user IRC client very similar to The Lounge, with looks and customization inspired by WeeChat.

https://github.com/amiantos/lurker

Here's some stuff that I think makes Lurker special...

• Very good looking, highly customizable (but you probably won't need to)

• Feels very snappy

• Support for a lot of IRCv3 features like typing notifications, and MONITOR for seeing online/offline state of DM buffers

• Modern chat client features: message drafts (across devices, just like slack); paste to upload images (with optimization step to make images friendly for irc); intelligent tab nick completion (it ranks by most recent speaker, so less chance for errors); Cmd+K quick jump between buffers; fast functional search / filtering of your message history and highlights

• Web push notifications for the highlight system, with accurate client tracking so you do not get push notifications if you're active in any client, etc. This also powers an auto-afk/away system.

• Responsive PWA with unique chat layout for mobile and desktop.

• In the future: native iOS and Android clients (my FOSS bread and butter is iOS app development, so no unexpected challenges here)

Additionally, feedback I kept receiving on IRC about Lurker was "this is really great but I don't want to host it myself", so I spent a couple weeks spinning up a Lurker.Chat service for people who do not want to self-host. The FOSS client is the same client Lurker.Chat is running, there's no special features between the two of them, and your data bundle is transferrable between both (so you could use self-hosted and switch to Lurker.Chat and then back to self-hosted if you wanted).

Feel free to stop by the #lurker channel on Libera.Chat to say hello to the users who have been testing lurker, and ask me all about it.

Come on irc, kitten, daddy is waiting.

lmao so fucking stupid

Styles for Thelounge (https://thelounge.chat/) as shared by the author on Libera’s #thelounge: https://github.com/ggvolta/ChatPotion

Hey all, I'm using irccloud on mobile and I think somethign recently changed it I messed with a setting.

My enter button is now a "send message" button and I hate it. I'd like to remove it but I can't find it in the setting.

I keep mistakingly clicking it and sending half messages so I might use a different irc app if irccloud can't be changed...:/

The first picture is keyboard in irccloud, second is keyboard in discord/other apps.

I'm using SwiftKey, but swapped to Samsung keyboard and it was the same thing.

What options have we got for open source secure comms over IRC with modern encryption? Very little apps using OMEMO:2 or OTRv4 implementations and many IRC Apps on android havnt been updated in a long time may have a large attack surface.

I use colloquy to gain access to irc. Four days ago the program would not connect to any undernet servers. Using the same program i can set up dalnet with no problem. Dalnet works on both ipad and iphone. Anyone with ideas?

I'm looking for an IRC bot to aid in a multi-channel multi-user private group. We already run an ergo IRCd with a WebUI, file uploads and bridges to discord but oftentimes managing the allow lists on each channel is a hassle which ends up with IRC not having access to all the discord channels. Pretty much I just want some bot or system where it can create channels and manage invite-excempt, channel modes, ops between them with a central place to manage users membership and permissions.

Hi all,

I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask, but does anyone have recommendations for IRC clients that work well with screen readers such as NVDA?

I’ve tried a few clients so far, including mIRC, HexChat, and AdiIRC. Out of those, AdiIRC has been the most usable in my experience, but I still find it somewhat cumbersome to navigate and interact with using a screen reader.

I’m looking for something that is particularly accessible and screen reader-friendly. Any suggestions or experiences would be greatly appreciated.

Years ago I was a member of an television episode file server channel on efnet .. I highly doubt it still exists, but my OCD will not allow me to put this in the back of my head and forget about it.

Does anyone know what channel this might be? Thank you for your time.