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?

Hi everyone,

A couple of weeks ago made a post about WordPress and UnrealIRCd integration, so I thought I'd make a new post telling you about the features implemented so far.

Web Client

• Nick avatars - Your website avatar automatically shows up in the webclient
• Nick and channel themes - Your profile cover photo shows up in the webclient as your own personal theme in the nicklist
• Image sharing (and managing) - From the webclient you can upload images, as well as delete and re-download them, and copy the link to the clipboard easily.
• Replies - You reply directly to a message to quote its content in your own message
• Reactions - You can react to messages as you would on other messaging platforms
• Automatic login to IRC using your WordPress account, authenticating with SASL OTP, so you don't need to re-enter any details to join the chat - it just works!

WordPress + UnrealIRCd

• Important account-related event notifications will show up in real-time as IRC operator server notices - e.g. new registration, new login, failed login, banned user, etc.
• User & Channel count WordPress widgets (with different themes to suit your site)
• Speaks to each other using JSON (REST API in WordPress, RPC API in UnrealIRCd) for integration using custom endpoints and methods.

I want to know what you'd want to give your user in terms of a fancy IRC chat. It's worth noting that I haven't broken IRC protocol here, which means anyone (including you) could create something like this using unmodified IRC protocol. I really would like some more ideas, although I do have a whole bunch of ideas already, I'd like to know what you want and would not want to see.

Below are some screenshots.

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hey peeps.

i'm quite new to this so apologize if i'm asking dumb ahh questions.

i'm trying to set up IRC server with Tor after these 2 tutorials https://infosecwriteups.com/create-a-hidden-irc-server-with-the-onion-router-tor-c839e3a81d78

https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/host-deep-web-irc-server-for-more-anonymous-chatting-0180682/

and it is working when i connect from the device i set up the server from(hexchat, linux).

but when i try it from a different device (also hexchat but windows 10) after loading it says "Connection Failed (Connection refused)".

am i missing something here ? much appreciated :)

Hello, I have managed to get ergo up and running, and generally working well however one concern i have is announcing the version of ergo, and when the server was created is there a way to hide this information from regular users, or preferably everyone but operators? user mode +I seems to be what i'd what but it appears to be ignored by ergo as far as i can tell. so is there another way to do this, looking at the example config doesn't seem to list anything about it ether. Or is usermode +I the way i should be going about this?

Hello all I recently published new website for Newnet IRC network.

https://newnet.net

Let me know what you think. Thanks!

Hopefully this post isn’t against rules. I didn’t see anything about it being an issue so submitting the post. Please let me know if there is some rule on this.

If I understand correctly an IRC bouncer saves chat history and messages that occur when you're not connected to later send when you join back. I installed ZNC and trying to test it out, I left the channel, closed my client, reopened, reconnected, and the history is just gone. Did I do something wrong? Why is there no chat history?

Hello everyone. I have read the previous topics, but didin't find the solution that could work for me with my zero coding skills. I want to put my students in my freenode channel with ChatGPT in it, so we could all chat together during our experimental lesson and get responces, summaries and ideas on demand in real time, visible for all. I think I will handle creating a channel, seems pretty straightforward, and I see there are CharGPT bots on GitHub, but when it comes to running the bot, I really don't know what to do. Is there any already working solution for that?

As TG was down and there was a bazillion posts about it with no real way of connecting any of that other than mods stepping in, we plopped out an IRC channel that’s not affiliated with any trackers / sites / services but rather just a spot to join and idle and have a decentralised but still central (snake eating itself, yes) place to ping for questions.

Discord etc is still not a fully free for all space so back to the old ways it is!

Come, join, chat if you want or just populate the channel and sit in stoic silence like it’s 1999 and IRC is still popular and the trauma of Slack is yet to be discovered.

irc.libera.chat ##bottleofrum (double hash is correct)

Hi everyone. I'm currently working an UnrealIRCd module + WordPress plugin which aims to cleanly integrate IRC and WordPress to a degree. For example, you can register on your WordPress website and then authenticate on IRC using the same credentials, and manage your account and channel from the website.

There is no "traditional" services package, UnrealIRCd directly asks WordPress things using REST API routes.

I don't want to make something "hack-it-together" (like relying on hacking in functionality to populate an SQL table (anope)), and so I'm making it work together as well as possible.

It's also possible to make WordPress widgets for UnrealIRCd, for example see the right-hand side of this page: https://poo.today

With this in mind, I would like to ask:

1. Would you use this?
2. What additional features can you think of to bring WordPress and UnrealIRCd closer together?
3. Does anyone want to help me beta test?

I recently migrated to Linux and have continued to use HexChat since it was really easy to import all my data from Windows. But I'm thinking of changing client since HexChat is abandonware at this point, and I'm facing a problem with HexChat's font rendering on Linux, which could totally be a distro-specific thing.

I'd like some suggestions on which new IRC client to migrate to, and would like to avoid CLI-based clients. One GUI client that I've tried is Konversation, which has a nice GUI but is considerably less extensive in terms of features compared to HexChat.

I was recently sent to an irc chat regarding some development work, so i looked it up, downloaded hexchat and got to chatting.

But there are a couple of things I dont quite get. There is this website that contains a full log of the chat, but when I connect using hexchat everything between me disconnecting and reconnecting is gone, so I have to jump between the browser and the app sometimes. Which is kind of annoying.

It seems to save/load logs from the sytem somewhere, is it possible to download the logs automatically from this log website? So I dont have a gap in the chat?

Also Ive been trying too look for an android irc client, but all of them seem to require an account, Ive seen hexchat work without one so I would prefer to not have to do that. Does anyone know a good one?

Is this r/irc ? I like the interface and features. Got friend wall, radio, user profile, sharing video, ect. Can someone explain how to make like this chat room?

if you attempt to connect irclibera over tor you get a message telling you are banned. And you get this link https://libera.chat/guides/connect#accessing-liberachat-via-tor which I do not understand.
I got the impression that irc servers like irclibera reject tor because tor is used to abuse their servers. If that is the case why would they suggest another approach to use tor in order to connect to their servers? They ask you to modify your tor settings, which makes you suspicious.

Does following the accessing-liberachat-via-tor instructions provide you with the same level of anonymity as the normal not modified tor software, included towards the irc server?
If it does then what does the irclibera server gain by not allowing a connection over a common tor browser, but allowing connecting over a modified tor browser using the irclibera onion service? Thank you.

I’m confused to the point of IRC in the modern day. What’s the versatility? Why not use another server-chat application?

I understand mentioning Discord, or corporately owned chatrooms at all, is a good way to set off canons in the sub. That said, I can’t see the practical utility of IRC compared to them. This especially goes for the lack of users latter compared to the former.

Is it because of chat-saving? Storage? Anti-corporatism? It’s what you used when you were sixteen?

...thanks for the good times...and easy embeds...

https://www.mibbit.com/

Using MIRC to get E book files. Works amazing, however I’m looking for a free option. Would Hex chat do the same thing? Thank you!

Hello, i was wondering if it would be possible to setup 2 networks with 2 server names as shown below. What would be the best way to approach this, would i need 4 instances of ergo running, one per server name, or 2 possibly, 1 per network with the 2 servers somehow, with a reverse proxy in front of it? Or would there be some way of having both networks on a single ergo instance? I've looked through the admin manual and the example configuration, and being a yaml file i would presume multiple of each section could be defined, but it's not very clear in the documentation.

Network 1:
irc.example.com
something.onion

network 2:
irc.example.net
diffrent.onion

I was thinking in terms of how decentralised yet so close-knit everything felt. You may be able to make friends on something like Instagram or Facebook, but developing a community that's almost like a family, lasting for literal decades? I doubt it. I don't see it happening with the same intensity on Discord either (do correct me if I'm wrong).

Also, the newer internet has way more things to distract you from one community.

The ask isn't only to discuss the above reason but also to figure out other reasons.

Hi, I have been using an IRC channel for a few years now because my friend made one back in 2020 but recently my friend won’t tell me how to make one so I have to figure it out myself. I figured out how to make an IRC server but I am having some trouble adding domain name to it. So how do I add a domain name?

Btw I’m using ircd to host it on a raspberry pi. I’m open to switching to different hosting software. Thanks for all the help in advance!

UPDATE: Based on a recomendation here, using Revolution IRC from Obtainium.

Playing around with ircd-hybrid irc server on Linux and realized there are no .. or rather few irc client apps for Android. Apps / services like Discord, telegram and SimpleX even Reddit seem to have filled the need? What do you use irc for today?

Sorry for the weird title, but yeah. I remember a script I used when I was like 12/13 I think it was called HAKERS100. It came with a bunch of script kiddie tools and whatnot, but I cannot find anything about it. Was it real? Was it a thing I dreamt up?

I'm working on a new IRC library and I'm trying to add support for character encoding conversion. However, I can't seem to find an network or server that doesn't appear to be using UTF-8 or 7bit ASCII.

I got a few suggestions from others, but the servers were geofenced and I didn't want to go and setup a VPN for what appears to be a niche feature.

I'm not looking to actually chat or anything so as long as there's a decent amount of non-utf8/non-7bit-ascii text in the MOTD that would be fine.

TIA

Idk why. This ban exists on my pc. When i try to connect to #efnet i get Cannot join to channel #efnet (You are banned)

I installed Hexchat with selecting python module during installation. But when I load any python script it says "Unknown file type C:\Users\------ Maybe you need to install the Perl or Python plugin?"

When I tried to load hcpython3.dll manually from "Load Plugin" option, I get "C:\Program Files\HexChat\plugins\hcpython3.dll': The specified module could not be found."

So how can I install python plugin from here? Other plugins like lua and perl are loading fine.

Hi, I'm a revolutionirc user and I happen to have a problem. Everytime I log out and close the app, all of my joined channels disappeared when I logged on.

I'm not sure if this is the right subreddit.

Anyways can you please help me with the problem. Maybe a new app or maybe some settings in supposed to apply. Thank you

I used to use andchat and saved the pkz but it won't load on my new phone

Can anyone suggest a good IRC app for android. I don't mind paying for one of I know it will actually work

Anyone gotten inspircd to work properly with SELinux? I'm having issues getting the service to be allowed to bind the ports. If I add irc_exec_t label to /usr/bin/inspircd, AND `setsebool -P irc_use_any_tcp_port 1`, I can get it to work, but I'd rather not have to allow IRC to bind to any tcp port. I'm sure there's a way to allow it to bind to the default ports of 6667 and 6697 exclusively, but I'm struggling to get there.

If it matters, my OS is RHEL 9.