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@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    91·
    11 days ago

    People still use it for the same reason we use email… Why move an entire community to matrix if IRC works fine? Anyone who wants to use matrix can set up a bridge, anyway. And I wouldn’t consider discord a good alternative.

      • Ajen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        102·
        11 days ago

        If you still don’t understand why people use IRC then we clearly didn’t make the same point, and you misunderstood mine.

        • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
          27·
          11 days ago

          I don’t think anyone still recognizes this wisdom you seem to be all about.

          Enlightening us with that wisdom would be beneficial to everyone, no?

          • Ajen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            62·
            11 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?

            • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
              25·
              11 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.