Hi all, just sharing a bit of what I've been working on for a while now. It's been a huge challenge, but I managed to get the MSN Chat OCX working in a regular browser.

It took me a bit of work and it's still a little slow (not the connection, but the webchat itself). I reckon it has a lot of the features we remember from MSN Chat, like gatekeeper, gatekeeperpassport, invitations, registered rooms, auditorium mode and stage mode.

I saw another post on Reddit where they get the OCX working in a controlled way, so I started developing my own version that could work with all browsers, so it's built in different coding languages. Here's what I've got so far. I set up a server with a mate's help so it could talk to itself properly. Still a few bits and pieces to sort out, but I love watching it come together. I'm also working on the group logic, since it's not that hard once you've got the basics down.

The name I gave the chat is just a temporary one, since a while back there was an MSN Chat clone with a similar name, so I took it from there. Other than that, I'd like to invite anyone who wants to be part of this project to come on board.

I reckon anything you can bring to the table is really valuable to me. 😄

I have been searching for any IRC that still has an active hacker community. I can't seem to find any. Libera #hacker chat is not active at all. Is there any server that still have it?

I got this from the pc shop without any information to me about this i got to know about it when I opened the cabinet after reaching home from shop

Also i doubt it's not a speaker but maybe a mic that listens everytime

what you guys know about this?

Do you also have the in you pc?

Long shot, but here goes. Back in 1997-1998 I was into writing PIL scripts for PIRCH. I hung out in DALnet #pirch.

I'm trying to find people from that scene, and things are a bit fuzzy in my head, but here goes:

- Spanner, who ran the big PIL archive at pirch.simplenet.com. Most of what survives of PIL scripting today exists because of that site and the Wayback Machine.

- Jellowe, who wrote the PIL tutorials (pil01–pil17, the pilgui series), Pil2Html and the newsletter, hosted at users.leading.net/~kirkland.

- CyberDawg, who was a channel op on DALnet #pirch

- Lorimar, who was a knowledgeable person on PIRCH related things (it might not have been DALnet?)

I've managed to recover about 730 scripts from old archives and CD-ROMs, but some things never got archived. I've lost some of my own PIL scripts, unfortunately.

If you're Spanner or Jellowe, or you know them, or you still have an old PIRCH folder with .pil files on a backup drive somewhere, I'd love to hear from you. Even just to say hi to someone from #pirch.

(The emails on their old sites bounce now, which is why I'm trying here.)

Faz tempo que estou aprendendo sobre o IRC e venho tentando – de verdade – interagir com alguma comunidade, ou mesmo achar algum propósito de uso prático através do cliente WeeChat. Mas até agora não vejo nenhuma interação interessante. Onde está o real uso para essa parte da internet?

i was tired of hexchat and pidgin irc so i made my own client let me know how it works for you.

On Sat 7 November 2026 at 15:00 UTC we will release UnrealIRCd 6.2.7.1 along with a hot-patch for UnrealIRCd 6 (no restart needed). This fixes multiple security issues in UnrealIRCd, including one issue rated as CRITICAL.

For more details, please see the original forum post by Syzop here: https://forums.unrealircd.org/viewtopic.php?t=9486

Ho sperimentato l'integrazione della generazione di immagini tramite IA direttamente in una chat web basata su KiwiIRC, utilizzando micropagamenti in Dogecoin per coprire il costo di ogni generazione.

Il problema iniziale era piuttosto semplice: la generazione di immagini tramite IA ha un costo, ma richiedere agli utenti di IRC di registrarsi a un servizio separato, mantenere un saldo prepagato o pagare un abbonamento mensile solo per generare un meme occasionale sembrava inutilmente complicato.

Anche i tradizionali sistemi di pagamento non sono particolarmente pratici per transazioni di pochi centesimi.

Quindi ho deciso di provare un approccio diverso.

Come funziona

L'intero processo avviene all'interno del client web di IRC:

1. L'utente collega un portafoglio Dogecoin autocustodiale.

2. Inserisce un prompt che descrive l'immagine desiderata.

3. Selezionano la qualità di generazione e visualizzano il prezzo corrispondente.

4. Approvano una piccola transazione in DOGE.

5. Il backend verifica il pagamento sulla blockchain.

6. L'immagine viene generata tramite OpenAI e può essere condivisa direttamente sul canale IRC.

In uno dei miei test, una generazione è costata 0,61 DOGE (circa 0,04 €).

Stack tecnico

• KiwiIRC: Client web e componenti Vue personalizzati per l'interfaccia utente.

• MediaBot: Bot/backend IRC personalizzato che gestisce le richieste di generazione e coordina il flusso di lavoro.

• DogeDrop: Integrazione con un wallet Dogecoin autocustodiale.

• Blockchain Dogecoin: Micropagamenti on-chain e verifica delle transazioni.

API OpenAI: Generazione di immagini.

Nel normale flusso di pagamento non sono previsti abbonamenti, crediti prepagati o saldi utente in custodia. Ogni generazione viene pagata singolarmente.

Perché IRC?

Una delle cose che apprezzo ancora di IRC è la sua estensibilità. Anche dopo decenni, è possibile integrare tecnologie completamente nuove senza modificare il protocollo sottostante o obbligare gli utenti a passare a un'altra piattaforma.

La parte interessante di questo esperimento non è tanto il generatore di meme in sé, quanto la possibilità di offrire piccoli servizi basati sull'utilizzo all'interno delle community IRC senza introdurre un'infrastruttura di fatturazione convenzionale.

Lo stesso approccio potrebbe potenzialmente funzionare per altri strumenti di intelligenza artificiale, utility o servizi di community.

È ancora in fase sperimentale, ma il flusso di lavoro completo funziona.

Ho incluso una breve dimostrazione che mostra la connessione al portafoglio, il pagamento, la generazione dell'immagine e la condivisione del risultato in un canale IRC.

Sono curioso di sapere cosa ne pensano gli altri sviluppatori IRC di questo approccio. Qualcuno ha sperimentato micropagamenti o servizi a pagamento integrati direttamente in un client IRC?

I used to participate in a multi-player game on IRC (channel #initgame) that was like 20-questions but about famous people. I would like to recreate it but I can't remember all the rules. I think with modern tools to create a robot that would monitor/summarize game progress, it would be pretty fun. IIRC, one person would choose a famous person and present their initials, e.g., GWB. They would also give four clues: living or dead, fictional or real, male or female, and I can't recall the fourth clue. Then players would rapid-fire and in real time ask yes/no questions. Sometime they would make humorous guesses, like "Great White Bacon" for GWB. Whoever guesses the correct answer becomes the next clue-giver.
Does anyone remember other details?

I don't understand how to get voice on Server SceneP2P Group #THE.SOURCE . I am using the correct port. Thanks!!

How many of you used the old but functional SearchIRC.com back in the day? I missed it when it closed down, it was such a great functional repository of all IRC networks.

Well, I'm just starting off but welcome to SearchIRC 2.0 - SearchIRC.net

Let me know your thoughts.

I live in a terminal these days, and every IRC client there is perfectly good and nothing like mIRC. So I made trout. It has the switchbar, the treebar, nicklist popups, the Address Book, Ctrl+K colors and those gray Windows 98 dialogs. The features you loved, and a few you hated. Slapping people around with a large trout is coming as soon as I find the right fish.

Full disclosure: I used to write TUIs by hand with ncurses and lost whole weekends to off-by-one borders. This time Claude Code did the pixel pushing while I complained about the shade of gray. Best division of labor I've had.

To be clear, this isn't trying to be the best terminal IRC client. It's a nostalgia project that happens to work. It goes through a soju bouncer, and if you don't have one it'll set one up for you, even on a Hetzner or DigitalOcean box (my referral link, fair warning), or on Google Cloud's always-free tier (you still pay Google about $3.65 a month for the IPv4).

trout --demo lets you poke around without connecting anywhere.

https://github.com/MaxRenaud/trout

I was able to chat over at libre chat ##chat channel while on the go and actually had a fun time.

Hi everyone i have been researching by myself for a while but I am not sure if i am asking the right questions. i have been working on an irc feature for my android launcher. I am doing a hard pivot and ive got some mechanics in place.

I am attaching screenshots but this is not a promotion. Just want to know what are major pitfalls i should be accounting for when trying to do irc like this. i am planning on allowing users to keep multiple connections in plit pane allowing u to reply to them. and pinning diifferent channels etc. I started this i feel by over simplifying the scope of IRC and what it stands for.

Context: I built this initially for an IRC server that I was going to host. but I am not able to maintain the server. so instead of sunsetting the whole feature I am pivoting to this new system that allows users to add their own IRC servers. are there any security or privacy concerns that I should be aware of when I am shipping this part of the launcher itself?

and deleting lastrun doesnt work

The repo ships:

1. A TUI for easy searching in the terminal

2. A plugin that runs inside WeeChat and shows results in its own buffer

3. A CLI for use in scripts with JSON / TSV support

Have fun - https://github.com/Strykar/weelog-rg

I am new to IRC. No idea what I am doing, but I cant connect to Efnet with a valid certificate. I wanted to join #nesdev, but can't. I am using hexchat on fedora linux. I tried connecting to all of the servers that https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/NESdev_IRC_channel told me to (Europeanom ones). I always get errors that my certificate is expired. I think I can turn off the validation checking but have no idea wether I will be risking my security or something. I'm going to bed so I won't respond for 8-9 hours

Again, sorry if what I said doesn't make sense I really have no idea what I'm talking about. Also maybe useful to mention that I can't visit efnet.org, it says "Unable to connect" on Firefox, but I can successfully ping it, and the DNS resolving works. Thank you for your help, really appreciate it

hello guys, If its not obvious i'm very very new to IRC, I stumbled upon it by accident when I installed ubuntu on my laptop a few days ago and found konversation in the app store. i figured out how to join networks and servers and i was hooked. Its so interesting! I then heard about irssi and using irc from the CLI sounded appealing so I installed that but have not opened or configured it yet. so my question is, is Irssi more difficult to use then the latter? are there different commands or things to adjust to? which do you guys reccomend? Also is there a way to just copy and paste all my servers in my server list on konversation to irssi or do I have to manually put them all back in?

Can anyone recommend any IRC servers that are still around and have people on them?