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I'm thinking about getting back into #IRC especially as my local LUG uses it. Its been decades (mIRC / Pidgin when it was Gaim days) since I last was active on the protocol. On desktop, there's

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@[email protected] @[email protected] Happy to have helped!

Another option, in case you're already hosting a Matrix server, is Heisenbridge, which is an IRC bouncer acting as a Matrix appservice, so you see IRC channels as rooms in your Matrix client. I've been using it for a few years now, it's pretty decent.

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I'm thinking about getting back into #IRC especially as my local LUG uses it. Its been decades (mIRC / Pidgin when it was Gaim days) since I last was active on the protocol. On desktop, there's

@[email protected] IRC and mobile does not go well together without some additional help, since IRC requires a persistent TCP connection to the server, and any interruption is quite invasive. It also drains battery a lot.

But with additional layer that keeps your IRC connection alive, it's doable. It's called "an IRC bouncer". I guess IRCNow is a good place to start exploring, since they apparently offer bouncer access for free.

https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Bouncer.Bouncer

(Sorry if you know all this already. :) )

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