What's your #IRC set up?
I want something always on, and can be accessed decently on my #Android phone and from my #linux desktop It's OK if it's a web browser site for desktop. I have a server w/ root so I can run something 24/7.
I am sorta using #weechat, but it's pretty ganky. Is there anything better?
biboumi or matterbridge are perpetually on my to-do list for this
i do have bitlbee running between irssi, my own ejabberd, and mobile-side Conversations but am really disrecomending that due to a preponderance of jank
@deejoe Eh I readlly don't want to have to ssh on my phone and access a screen/tmux session....
I feel that.
also, sometimes I use the freenode-hosted qwebirc instance, and have dabbled with using irccloud (free-of-charge tier mostly)
kiwiIRC is also on the to-do list
if you try any of my to-do items, very interested to know how it goes
@deejoe I don't really blame the likes of slack or Telegram or discord for eating IRC's lunch. They have a technically superior system, since that aspect just works...
It's a shame. Us techies need to fix it.
yeah, I'm not sure 'blame' is what I'd use, either. It's different: Centralized, for starters.
Except for the very deliberate embrace, extend, extinguish on Slack's part: I blame them for that, but just as much early adopters buying into it, many (most?) of whom should know better.
similar story w/ Telegram being "open source" but for the client only.
@dgold yes that's what I use. And eh, it's just not as good/slick as web interfaces for proprietary chat systems
@dgold I mean, it's Good Enough to be usable.
Ah I just hope for well designed, featureful free software options....
@ebel
Quassel core on server + quasseldroid on phone
@silkevicious Thanks, i'm trying that now. It looks promising!
@silkevicious OK, Quassel is blowing my mind. It's *exactly* what I was looking for! Thanks!
@ebel i'm glad it works for you! 😉
btw i moved my account here, if you still want to follow me @metalbiker
@ebel
irssi-in-tmux on my main VPS
riot via the matrix.org-to-freenode bridge for a couple of high-priority channels
for the rest, i deal with backscroll when on laptop or desktop. in extremis, ssh via Termux to the VPS and attach to tmux