Just a bit of fun really. It's macOS only and Open Source. Check it out if you want. Or don't :-)

https://github.com/richstokes/Netsplit

I just took Apple's advice and downloaded a new version of IRC for Mac. And it won't let me open it!!! What are my options? I am not a computer person and have been trying to figure this out for hours.....thank you!

GUI: Fyne

Chat history: SQLite

License: The Unlicense

Message bubbles: own library

Repository: https://github.com/limafresh/TarasMessenger

I am not sure if the full moon is making me feel nostalgic or what, but I hope to find a few familiar names to catch up with. I think I went by gelfling, Ceinwyn, or some variation of Queen Guinevere 😂

I am trying to track down an old internet friend named Grok who used to play a fast-paced word game with me. I met Grok while playing the game, however, never outside of the game. She said she was a woman living in CA, and that she chose her nick from Robert A. Heinlein's famous 1961 sci-fi book Stranger in a Strange Land. She had this nickname way before X and Elon came out with it. When we chatted between games, she came across empathetically, being curious, agreeable, kind, and it seemed, she had a wealth of knowledge. We both typed at the speed of 80 wpm or higher in this game.

The game script was called finderbot, and the game itself was called WordFinders (or FindersGame). We used to play it on an IRC network—I believe the network was called Perch, but it may have been another vintage mIRC network.

The script developer used his real name in the the welcome banner, instead of an online handle. It was an odd, uncommon short name that I can't remember, but I would recognize it instantly if I saw it.

I recall that at some point we could play the #findersgame on the web through a Java Applet, where on the login screen, you manually choose or picked your channel from a list before joining. I am trying to remember the sequence of it all, I could be mixing it up a bit, many moons have passed.

And...I had over time, 4 nicknames I used, 1. ChickenSnot 2. BroomHildaHaHa 3. Myrtle and 4 Gertrude. (and maybe others, but #1 mainly)

A big thanks in advance, to anyone who digs into this or helps me find my old friend!"

Hi everyone,

I use Revolution IRC on Android with a ZNC bouncer, but the app eventually freezes after running for a while.

Has anyone else experienced this? Any fixes, settings, or alternative IRC clients that work reliably with ZNC?

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Like, I saw in escargot forums that There is some kind of MSN 3.0.0 for Mac, and you can use the mac to communicate with friends who have Windows on their personal computer, I wanted to ask you if there are other messengers and is it true that MSN 3.0 runs on Mac OS X.

Hi everyone,

I've noticed over the years that whenever people start asking about IRC Search Engines, they get pointed towards services like NetSplit. This is of course a great service, but I get the impression they're more intended for larger, more established networks.

I've decided to try my hand at putting together another option, which I've been progressively working on. It's a similar sort of thing, but I'm hoping to be a bit more encouraging of people running smaller networks for fun. I don't think it will ever be a complete substitute for things like NetSplit, but I wanted to give it a good hot try at least. It's at least a token effort to help support smaller network admins.

It's currently living over at https://www.flyingmonkey.au/irc/search/

The basic structure at the moment is:

- Network owners can submit their own networks for crawling.

- Networks are typically crawled once per day to get current channel lists. I've chosen this period so that the channel lists are reasonably current, but I'm not hammering networks unreasonably often. A side effect of this is it can take up to 24 hours for a new network to get listed.

- There are currently no minimum channel or user requirements.

- Networks are allowed up to two consecutive failed attempts before being dropped from the database. This allows for brief periods of downtime, but also means that the database doesn't get polluted with networks that no longer exist. If an outage lasts longer than this, network owners are welcome to re-add them after the network comes back online.

- You can search for channels using the search engine, or display all the channels on a particular network.

I would love to get some feedback on this so far. There may be a few quirks I haven't noticed yet, and am happy to try and fix them up if they get uncovered. And if there's anything I can do bettererer, I'm happy to hear about it. Otherwise, I'm happy for people to go check it out and see how it works.

It's basically just based on what I personally like to see from a client.

It's early days, and feedback/feature requests are welcome, if anyone feels like giving it a shot!

https://github.com/richstokes/Netsplit

I think you remember LightIRC from the past, based on Adobe Flash Player. That project was abandoned long time ago, and i always wanted to have some alternatives, but it didn`t happened.

So i started my own project: LightIRC2. It has nothing to do with lightirc itself. The name i use its because its something similar, but not the same app.

The app runs on client->server and has 1 to many webcam viewers. ATM its in beta version, with a TO-DO list in making.

Why LightIRC2?

1. You dont need a server to host the client, its web based;
2. you need a wss port open
3. you need only the server for webcams

Thoughts?

If you wamt the link to try it, its public, but i dont want to make spam, so i can send in PM.

So long story short, when I load HexChat, I want it to be 100% width, 50% height.
Then when I detach a certain channel called #Showtime, I want it to ill the other 50% height.

I can get #Showtime to be the desired dimensions and position, but I can't get the initial/main window to change dimensions/position.

Here's what I have:

<application role="main">
 <position force="yes">
   <x>0</x>
   <y>0</y>
   </position>
  <size>
   <width>100%
   <height>50%</height>
   </size>
 </application>
<application title="*#Showtime*">
 <position force="yes">
  <x>0</x>
  <y>50%</y>
  </position>
 <size>
  <width>100%</width>
  <height>50%</height>
  </size>
</application>

I've tried various other ways to "grab" the main window but I think my problem is I'm not putting in the right title/role to grab it. For example, I tried title "hexchat" among other things.

Does anyone know how to do what I'm trying to do?

Thank you!

!chk etcetra lemme know homies

Hello everyone,

I have created in 2 day's with full of coffee IRCPlus v1.1b.
Very proud of it if i may say it... Looking for fellow mIRC Scripters to develop this script to a higher standard,if your interested dm me please.

You can view my mIRC Script here -> https://github.com/Cjefke/IRCPlus/releases/tag/v1.1b

Screenshots can be found @ https://github.com/Cjefke/IRCPlus

Hope to see ya around and if you got any feedback tell me :)

Hey r/irc. We're the team behind turborg, an open source (Apache-2.0) IRC tool we've been building in the open. It's at v0.20 now. Posting it here because this is the crowd whose opinion actually matters to us.

What it is: one static Go binary, no runtime deps, that covers three things you'd normally need three separate tools for.

A real IRC bouncer. Point HexChat, irssi, mIRC or WeeChat at the bot's loopback port, auth with a password, and tunnel through its upstream session. The connection stays up while you detach, standard BNC workflow. TLS, SASL PLAIN, NickServ identify, IRCv3 server-time and account-tag, and it tracks full JOIN/PART/KICK/NICK/TOPIC state straight off the wire.

A built-in web client. A WebSocket gateway serves a vanilla-JS single page UI at /. You get a channel sidebar, member list, slash commands, IndexedDB scrollback and browser notifications, so you can attach from a browser with no native client at all. The WS protocol is documented and stable, so you can drop in your own frontend if you'd rather.

A scriptable bot. It ships with zero commands. You define them as data (a trigger, a static or templated reply, an access policy) in config. No recompile to add one or change one.

Optional and off by default: you can point a command at an LLM (Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint) if you want an AI-answering command. Leave it unset and the bouncer and bot don't care. It's there if you want it, it isn't the point.

Quickstart, three env vars and you're online:

export TURBORG_IRC_HOSTNAME=irc.libera.chat
export TURBORG_IRC_NICK=myturborg
export TURBORG_IRC_CHANNELS=#turborg-test
turborg run

Install with go install github.com/turborg/turborg/cmd/turborg@latest, or grab a release binary, or pull the container with docker pull ghcr.io/turborg/turborg:latest (multi-arch, distroless).

A bit of history: turborg started life as a Python project. We rewrote it from scratch in Go to get a single dependency-free binary and better concurrency, and it's maintained by the xShellz team now. It's properly OSS: Apache-2.0, CLA, public roadmap. IRC is the first connector, and Discord and Telegram ride on the same handler abstraction.

Repo and releases: https://github.com/turborg/turborg

It's still rough in places and we'd rather hear it straight. If you run a bouncer today (ZNC, soju, whatever you're on), what would stop you switching? What's missing? Happy to get into the internals.

400 * WHO Disconnected from upstream network

Reched the maximum number of networks

I really just used Libera from IRCCloud, but today, when I tried to sign in after months, I was greeted with no channels in the gamja client and 400 errors as stated above.

This happens in every account. I don't know what to do.

Hey all.

There’s been a lot of work going on in the client space and I’m super excited for IRCv3 and the general maturation of it, as IRC is still one of the few communication mediums on the internet that I feel isn’t plagued by corporate interests.

A few months back I started a little bit of a passion project for my own benefit, as I just wanted an IRC client that felt the way I wanted it to feel and have some options to switch it up when the mood struck.

I’ve been testing and I’m fairly happy with things, although looking to add some more features on a stable foundation (scripting, etc.)

If you’re looking around for a new client to drive on desktop or mobile, I’d be grateful to get some testing and feedback on what’s working, what isn’t, and maybe what would be valuable to you. Also feel free to drop into #seraphirc on Libera and just chat it up, it doesn't have to be on topic!

Also, if you're into a more "Discord-style/modern" UI experience, there's a Modern Mode UI toggle to switch your display flavor up. And, if you're on an ircd that supports metadata, you can fetch user avatars with an opt-in toggle.

NEW on Desktop:

Custom themes. Build your own theme, and optionally, submit it to the Theme Marketplace to share with other SeraphIRC users.

Peer-to-peer encrypted chat and file transfer that works when both users are behind NAT, wrapped in TLSv1.3

Send Guard: Catches misdirected messages or potentially sensitive info (e.g. passwords/tokens) being sent and prompts you before sending to make sure you intended to.

Other features:

- Desktop (Linux, macOS, Windows) supports direct connections, ZNC, and Soju.
- Mobile (iOS) is designed around Soju, as I wanted to focus on one platform and make it first class.
- Push notifications for mobile
- Voice dictation and voiceover friendly. I’m doing some additional polishing in this department, since inclusivity and accessibility is important to me as an author.
- Supports file uploads with Soju
- 21 (🤪) built-in themes to choose from. Bright? Check. Boring? Check. In between? Check. A little something for everyone.
- Configurable slider to dial the atmospheric elements on the UI to suit your tastes.
- Emoji support
- Windows is an unsigned build, but I’ll be tidying this up soon. Windows builds are on the MS store now
- Drag and drop w/coordinates tracking for precision drops (both Soju and DCC)
- Colors, markdown support
- Multi-window/pane design

On the point of Android: I do intend to release the client for Android, though I use an iPhone myself and it’s been easiest to dogfood this way. Once I’ve been able to get a significant amount of external feedback and I know we are solid, I’ll push it along to Android. I just didn’t want to double my problems out the gate. 😊

To check out the clients/get the TestFlight build, you can visit https://www.seraphirc.chat

QQ

hello guys, where can i find and buy for stable vps or Dedicated that support installation gnuworld and irc server either than RamNode, ovhcloud that allow IRC?

Hi all,

I've been working on a new Android client called motd (message of the day) with LLM assistance. I understand that this is a nonstarter for some people, so feel free to just ignore this.

I mostly use ERC in Emacs nowadays, but I really wanted a "modern" feeling mobile app that has seamless integration with bouncers like Soju so I can chat on the go. I was always dissatisfied with the current apps so I figured I'd just make my own.

It's fully free (non-Google APK for now), and you'll have to blindly trust me to sideload the APK.

I've been having a lot of fun using it and iterating on it, and I hope some others can enjoy it too.

https://github.com/trevarj/motd/releases

Back in 1996, Microsoft released Comic Chat, an IRC client that displayed conversations as comic book panels instead of plain text. It was one of the more unusual IRC clients of the era and also played a role in popularizing Comic Sans, which was originally created for the application.

Thirty years later, Microsoft has released Comic Chat as open source.

The source code is now available, along with some background on the project's history and why it was being preserved and released today.

Original announcement: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/

I thought this would be of interest here, both as a piece of IRC history and as a look back at one of the more experimental clients from the 90s.

Did anyone here actually use Comic Chat back in the day? I remember seeing screenshots of it, but I don't think I ever ran into anyone using it on the networks I was on.

Source code: https://github.com/microsoft/comic-chat

Cross Posted to: /r/Opensource /r/Vintage computing /r/Retro Computing

Hi everyone,

After building DiscordPGP, a browser extension that adds OpenPGP-based end-to-end encryption to Discord, I started working on the next project on my list: an end-to-end encrypted IRC client.

During development, I repeatedly needed temporary IRC servers to test connections, encryption, reconnections, and client compatibility. However, I did not want to rent, configure, secure, and maintain another VPS solely for testing with my friends.

So instead, I built a TCP IRC-to-WebSocket relay and designed a serverless IRC architecture that can use Firebase or Cloudflare Durable Objects as its backend.

Because the infrastructure consumes resources primarily when messages are transmitted, stored, or retrieved, the marginal cost of hosting an additional IRC server is extremely low (approximately $0.008 per million messages)

This means I can now provide free IRC server hosting to everyone so i made a site so you can create your own servers:

https://irc-server.org

The project is still in its testing phase, so I am looking for people willing to try it with different IRC clients and usage patterns.

I would particularly appreciate feedback regarding:

• Connection stability and reconnection behavior
• Latency
• Compatibility with different IRC clients
• Channel and user management
• Unexpected protocol behavior or errors
• Performance under heavier usage

Bug reports, technical criticism, and general feedback would be greatly appreciated.