ngIRCd 27 is released, a lightweight Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server software. (social.tchncs.de)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14931443

More than three years have passed since the last release of ngIRCd – a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for small or private networks – and more than 130 individual patches have accumulated in the Git “master branch” in the meantime. Some are cosmetic, some bring new functionality, others improve the documentation or fix bugs. All in all, it’s more than time for the next “big” release of ngIRCd!

And here it is, ngIRCd release 27! 🎉 https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/releases/tag/rel-27

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Is there Still reason to host irc?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

It's still pretty popular for most FOSS communities and the only way to get live support by the community, so yes, very much so.

The big advantage is you don't need to sign up for anything, zero terms and conditions to agree too, zero personal information to give away unlike Discord which now wants phone numbers and such for most servers.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's still pretty popular for most FOSS communities

Do you have examples? Most communities I know are on discord…

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They are older, more system level projects. See libera and OFTC.

To counter your experience Ive only seen emulators use Discord.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Why not? There aren't really any good alternatives out there if you want a chat without gifs and embedded images and videos and all that stuff that requires basically a whole web view to render it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly. And IRC allows one to very quickly ask a tech question via web IRC chat or IRC client without having to sign up somewhere (Discord, Matrix, Mattermost and so on).

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

for me bigest issue is to switch from something else

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

IRC by itself is really ancient and certainly has drawbacks but given the amount of mobile apps, desktop apps and web apps for it and the fact that anyone can easily join as guest without needing to hand out any information (email address, name, phone number) is hard to beat. Things like Discord, revolt.chat, Matrix, SimpleX Chat, Session and team chat like Mattermost, RocketChat, Zulip have their users and its benefits in the open source world.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yes.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

a [...] software

A software WHAT? There's a word missing.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

hmm? Where did you read that ?

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