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0 points91bananas10y ago0 comments

Doesn't it also lack a common, arguably nice, frontend? With integrations to everything under the sun pre-built, requiring no management by the implementers? Built in bouncers, searchable history, etc?

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scrollaway10y ago· 3 in thread

A frontend is actually the one thing it's not lacking. IRCCloud.com supports ircv3 and is a very nice "slacky" UI to IRC.

ne0phyte10y ago

Sadly IRCCloud is still lacking one 100% crucial feature: a backlog search. I've been a paying IRCCloud user for almost 2 years now and back then they already had the search feature on the roadmap as "coming soon". The only way right now is to keep scrolling and scrolling and then some more scrolling until you find what you are looking for. In a busy channel this is pretty much pointless.

scrollaway10y ago

Completely tangential but if you use quassel, check this little thing I built for a channel we own:

https://github.com/jleclanche/quassel-weblog

There's a demo in the URL field (not hotlinking here directly because it's a weak server). I didn't really document it but there's backlog search, ?highlight=<nick> functionality and it's straightforward to add functionality.

Mandatum10y ago

I agree it's "Slacky", but the interface itself is very much traditional IRC.

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