I’ve been enjoying chatting on IRC and was wondering if anyone has any relevant experience with any bouncers?

I tried setting up ZNC but could not get any clients to work with it.

I finally settled on soju with goguma as client, but since no up-to-date Docker container existed, I had to create my own Dockerfile for that.

For now, it’s only available on my LAN (proxied through nginx), and am uncertain if exposing it externally is a good idea (I already have a VPN, but prefer to expose services if it’s safe to do so).

  • Ajen
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    2 days ago

    Quoting my previous comment:

    Why move an entire community to matrix if IRC works fine?

    In other words, why “fix” it (and risk fragmenting the community) if it ain’t broke?

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      2 days ago

      Because IRC doesn’t “work fine”.

      It’s a 50-year old solution to no modern problems where everything about it has been solved in better ways.

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            1 day ago

            OP: asks for advice about IRC

            just_another_person: only stupid and lazy people use IRC

            just_another_person: why doesn’t anyone appreciate how helpful I am?