It would be great if you could add some kind of avatar system on top of (or outside of) IRC with this client. Also auto expandable URLs, emoji support and pretty much everything Slack offers.
We need an IRC-based Slack alternative badly!
We need an IRC-based Slack alternative badly!
Recently I had the need for a better gitter-irc two-way gateway than gitter-irc-bot. Specifically, I wanted to be able to run multiple mirrors off a single bot/account. I started writing a multi-protocol gateway and the goal was to support slack, gitter, mattermost, irc and possibly matrix with a plugin API.
Here's the prototype: https://github.com/jleclanche/gitterway
It's in python. I started rewriting it in Go and then found out toml support in go was lacking, then I sort of gave up... if anyone's interested in picking it up, file an issue on there!
That author also wrote a test suite in go that compares all the other toml implementations for interoperability. I'd say it's pretty high quality.
I'm kind of un-bullish on toml in general, sadly. I tried toml in a couple of projects, and found for structures nested beyond a certain level, it doesn't really seem all that simple anymore. I ended up going back to json or yaml (only with a parser that doesn't implement most of the fancy features of yaml, for conservation-of-sanity reasons, of course).
Emojis work just fine over IRC, https://i.imgur.com/2EeZYpP.png
Not sure what you mean with "auto expandable URLs", but there probably already exists a script for that.