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As someone who's been on irc since the mid 90s and have had and still do have a couple of Irssis running in screens for 10+ years, I have to say that irccloud is pretty great for ease of use. There was an open source clone called ircanywhere, but it seems abandoned.

I have no idea what the future holds, and I always welcome new tools and disruptions, and I'm using slack, discord, messenger etc for various communities. What keeps me from leaving irc is:

* friction in moving all users that have been using an IRC channel for 20 years

* stupid stuff in slack and messenger like lock in and slow search. I really like grep:ing logs for links and discussions and then reading the context up and down, which I have found difficult in web services.

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If you're looking for an open source alternative to IRCCloud, then The Lounge[1] pretty much fills that niche.

[1] https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge

haha this client name reminds me of the old mIRC Channel List days!

+1 to The Lounge. It's how I was able to get a few friends & coworkers to start using IRC.

Are you using The Lounge for work? Would you mind sharing which company? It would help me find out if/what companies are (disclaimer: I'm one of the dev). Thanks!

Disclaimer: I personally do not need emoji's.

Does TheLounge let users upload custom emoji? I ask, because my coworkers say, "You can take Slack from my cold dead hands". There was even a great emoji war.

I would like to stand up a web interface to IRC and let folks play around on it. I tried Convos, but it didn't seem to fit that piece of the puzzle.

For the backend, I have always used UnrealIRCD + Anope services. It has always been rock solid and scales beyond any need I could imagine. It would be great if there were a modern web interface I could put in front of it that people would want to use.

No, it does not support that. Just uses unicode emojis and lets the OS/browser handle the rendering

Thanks. I totally understand and agree. The problem I am faced with is that Slack (a former gaming company) has gotten people hooked / trained / conditioned on the custom emoji.

No, it doesn't support custom emojis. Even if it did, only this particular client would display them and not any other IRC client.

Thankyou. That would probably be ok, since Slack using the IRC gateway had the same effect.

Yeah, irssi is running perfectly fine for last 20 years, icq, msn, Skype, discord, everything comes and goes, longins/password got forgotten and lost.

But there is always that irc channel easily to get into and will be there in 20 years.

I know that I can extend my irssi client with plugins needed to preserve history, flag stuff, save in database by triggers, then export that in whatever way I want and serve to the users.

I just wish irssi supported other scripting languages. I don't particularly dislike Perl and it's not like it needs to do very complex stuff, but it'd be fun to tinker with it with my language of choice.

Use the irssi proxy and connect any scripting language or bot framework you like (that supports IRC of course)

I used to do this anyway so that I could reload the bot without reconnect spam

I hate grepping my IRC logs. I wish ZNC had a plug-in that allowed searching logs.

Here are a couple I just found. I've not tried either but hope to later today.

1) https://github.com/pR0Ps/znc-logsearch

2) https://github.com/robinsmidsrod/znc-log-viewer/blob/master/...

ZNC has the shell plugin, which I use for grepping logs. It's still grepping logs but I can do it from my IRC client.

That’s literally the first actual use of the shell functionality that makes sense!

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