Posts tagged: irc

#wikimedia-rust Matrix to IRC bridge is back

tl;dr: You can now chat in #wikimedia-rust:matrix.org and reach folks on IRC Nearly a year ago, the official Libera.Chat <-> Matrix bridge was shut down. There's a lot that went wrong in the technical and social operation of the bridge that the Libera.Chat staff have helpfully documented, but from a…

Age requirements for chatting

So now matrix.org requires you to confirm that you're over 16 before you can use it. I hope this doesn't become the new reality - I got started on IRC a few years before I turned 16. :|I couldn't find any age requirement for freenode (https://freenode.net/policies).Oh, and Slack also requires…

Quassel

I've recently switched from using ZNC+Textual over to Quassel. It has the same idea as a bouncer, with a "core" that runs on your server, and a "client" that you run locally. I've been using ZNC for over 2 years now, so this was a pretty big switch for me.…