Hello, I am newish to IRC (used it a little when I was much younger) and need some help with IRC clients. All I want out of the client is to have alternating background colors for the messages. Does anyone know of one that does this?

Edit: some more info as I'm reading more about IRC. Im using this for a channel that is only used for chatting. So the messages are just normal text. Is there a way to alternate the text color from white to gray so that I can see that the messages are separate and are more readable?

yes, i am tired to seek my previous commands in the log files.. Win11 xs64Pro Hexchat v2.16.2 x64

Isnt there anything like the ClipBoard in Powershell? i simply hit UP or DOWN and i get back all my given commands, even after reboot...

Also same for the Windows CMD?

Thanks^^

Funny enough, it wasn't until I came on here that I noticed someone has already beaten me to the punch on making a site inspired by bash.org. But I think it's cool that someone else feels the same way I do. Anyway, I figured maybe I should share it with you all regardless. :)

Some differences;

- I opted out of the voting functionality. I just didn't see a good enough reason to bring it back.

- This does not contain any content from bash.org

- OS Dark/light mode for site and quotes (these are based on shiki themes, in case some programming humor is submitted).

Latest and random will be implemented as soon as more quotes are added.

Not to step on ircquotes' toes, but wanted to throw in my effort as I finished the MVP before I realized it was around. Oops!

Edit: rss feed has been added for latest quotes.

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https://qdb.sh

New to IRC, not sure of etiquette. Usually I ask some questions in some pretty big channels looking for answers for some knowledge. Someone replies to me publicly in the channel, I don't get back to it until much later (the existing discussion doesn't involve my topic).

Do users tend to prefer acknowledge or a "thank you" or are they happy to just drop in some knowledge answering questions?

For me, I don't want to be alerted for a "thank you" directed to me (maybe it's the ADHD in me), only when it involves a discussion or I'm receiving an answer).

And for small channels with little activity, I feel like people involved don't want to jump into the channel when there's an unread message only to find that it's a "thank you", especially when it's not directed to them.

But I'm a weirdo so not sure if I'm different than most people in this regard.

Any servers recommended? or anyone with this app that can tell me how to use it properly? thanks

Notre réseau (https://zeolia.chat) possède quelques mini-sites qui sont en fait des pages d'accueil spécifiques à certains canaux (par exemple #discussions ou #lgbt).

Nous cherchons à les rendre plus attrayantes, avec quelques contraintes:

• si possible, pouvoir facilement décliner la charte (deux salons, deux ambiances)
• responsive, il faut que ça passe aussi bien sur PC que sur téléphone
• sobre et efficace, pas la peine d'avoir des animations et du JS qui allourdissent tout.

Si vous avez des idées, n'hésitez pas à las proposer ici ou sur notre salon #aide

Been using IRC since the 90s, but currently residing in China. The title basically says it all. I just looked at my terminal and I'm now getting "permission denied" when trying to connect to any server. It's a windows 10 box. The only thing I can think of is China finally banned IRC.

Any ideas?

I've had my Avistaz account for several years but since both my old laptop and phone crashed a little over a month ago I haven't been able to access it. I got an email saying that I have to log in or else my account will be deleted, but because I don't have my authenticator app connected to my avistaz account anymore, avistaz recommends that I download an irc chat program to ask for help. I've written in hex.chat but it's been over an hour and no one has replied yet. Is there another way to retrieve my account? Or get in touch with someone from Avistaz who can help me? Or anyone on Avistaz who can write the admins for help on my behalf? Thank you for any help.

I'm looking for an active server that has a decent amount of casual chatting channels

Just wondering if there are any eggdrop bots that still are actively being developed?

I last used an eggdrop in late 90s and it would be cool to get one running again. Just found mirc scripts that have eggdrop controls, on a bit of a nostalgia kick.

I don't know if i'm allowed to make a post about a post, but https://www.reddit.com/r/irc/comments/1fzr2jt/bashorg_copy has quite a bit of junk comments of me trying to get the website working/opinion on the UI etc, but anyways.

new website is up, aka copy of bash.org, yes it contains all the old quotes from it plus allowing new submits(which mods will manually approve),

Cheers and let me know of bugs and feature requests. <3

Is there a script (as a user) to anonymize or hide your IP across IRC servers or is that something the administrators have to set up?

Hello, anybody here who was active on IRC DALnet and IRCHighway on channel #Survivor-Central in years 2000 to maybe 2017. I'm looking for anyone who was running fserve and could still have some files I'm looking for. Especially Carl8506 with Survivor Extras.

I discovered about it later (around 2015) and being from Europe Carl was there rarely and only in times when here was 4am or so.

Anyone know? Or somebody from that time who could saved files from him? Thanks for any info.

Hi to everyone I'm currently doing a project where i need to code a IRC server with all the stuff needed for irc, I only have one doubt, i recently implemented in the code the handling of the PRIVMSG commando which works pretty fine when sending messages between TWO users and users in the channel. For now coding wise, i just checked that the parameters are correct, like the user where you want to send the message exists and how many params you put, from what i understood, with the RFC the command should work with two parameters as explained in the rfc2812 (for now i need to do a server mostly like the one specified in that rfc):
Parameters: <msgtarget> <text to be sent>
but i know there are other errors i need to implement but i don't know what do they do and what checks should i make.

If it can help to be more clear i don't need to check if the usr is banned from a channel or something like that.

I think that's all? Am i missing something thanks for the replies

So, I'm working on a new version of bash.org. I've gathered all the old quotes from the original site, including data like votes per quote(yes, the new website will have all of the old quotes). But there are two "issues" with my version. First, since I'm writing the site's source code completely from scratch, I’ll base the UI somewhat on the old bash.org. If anyone has suggestions for the UI, feel free to share!

The second issue is the domain name. Most bash.* domains are either taken or too expensive, so I’m thinking of going with ircquotes.org. If anyone has better suggestions, drop them below. Cheers!

EDIT

The website is up!: https://ircquotes.org

NOTE: The old quotes have been re added!

Cheers!

Anyone from the old chatspace day's want to hangout on a server? We can pretend we're not old anymore.

I'm new to IRC and I'm a bit pissed to loose track of messages when I'm not on my computer. I read a lot about bouncer software like ZNC but it requires a server and it looks too complicated for me to setup.

I was wondering if you guys had recommendations about online bouncers?

im new to chanserv (coming from undernet) and i have no clue how to see if a user that has access is missing from my channel. with the undernet there's a command that shows all logged in users that are online and have access on your channel, and is very easy to spot if they are online but not on your channel.

is there such option with chanserv? i can see the user list with access, but it doesn't show me if they are online but not present in my channel. like, tricking me, if you know what i mean.

please send help.

Any help or guidance is appreciated. I am sick of facebook and am looking to incorporate irc and usenet and other alternatives and legacy systems into one intranet. Again I have not been able to find one chat room with limechat on freenode and am disconnected immediately from libera from some reason. I will try others but I hope I get a response from someone here. Thanks!

Hello Have tried different clients. When I log into a server I have no problem but I don't see any conversation taking place. What am I doing wrontg?

Hey, r/irc. I have just spun up an ergo instance on a vps. The purpose for it would be to provide a low-resourcing, runs-on-a-toaster backup communication channel for a federated ngo in an authoritarian state. I will need to manage user permissions, preferably in a modern way by assigning them to groups, which would grant or remove a bunch of permissions across multiple channels. I understand this is not an out-of-the-box functionality for IRC. What are the options? Bots? Scripts?

Daemon is Ergo, but we are in early prototyping stage, can switch.

Please stick to IRC, we are aware of alternatives e.g. Matrix, Discord, etc, and these are being considered separately.

I was checking out the kiwiIRC project a few weeks ago. I think it would be a good fit to embed on my website. The last few days though it seems like the site is down. I've also noticed that the embedded kiwi clients on other websites have stopped working. Does anyone know what is going on or how to get in touch with the site maintainer?

https://kiwiirc.com/

Edit: I can now access the home page but none of the other pages.

I am doing wargames on Over The Wire and they have an IRC.

What IRC server do you recommend for Mac OS?

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Is there no Hexchat specific subreddit?

Hi, I'm new to irc. I tried joining the most popular servers/channels (lounge on libra net, etc) but there is hardly any chat. Are there any channels where ppl are more engaged?

hi, im not sure if i put something incorrect in my configuration but i am unable to join the slashnet server on halloy.

config looks like this:
[servers.slashnet]
nickname = "[mynickname]"
server = "irc.slashnet.org"
tls_enabled = true

Alqiwa im able to connect using weechat but on halloy it shows
"connection to server failed (a TLS error occured: io error: received fatal alert: HandshakeFailure)"

im pretty new to irc so i am unsure how to fix this issue.

I have TLS working on most servers I connect to, but I can't get it to work on Slashnet. I am using ZNC. I confirmed that I get SSL errors both via ZNC and direct client (Halloy) connection. It reads as an "sslv3 alert handshake failure".

I was able to open a connection to Slashnet using openssl, which told me that they're using TLSv1.2. I tried manually enabling TLSv1.2 in ZNC config to no avail.

I'm new to IRC so I'm probably missing something--any ideas?

Edit: per u/KindOne's messages, the issue is with Slashnet using a cipher that was removed from znc's default config.