Hey, I'm currently thinking about switching from The Lounge to Quassel or WeeChat. Can recommend one over another, because at the moment I can't really decide.

Thanks in advance :)

Hi folks,
Long time lurker, occasional poster here.
We've been using Hexchat at church as a quick communication method between our sound booth, livestream room and video booth with no issues for a number of years. We had a windows update a few weeks ago and ever since (11/3/24), the remote client computers in the sound and video booths cannot connect to the host computer (the livestream room PC). I'm the TD, have built all of the AVMM systems, and also do this at work (Gov't networked AVMM systems), but despite Googling, verifying settings and experimenting, this one has me scratching my head so I hope some of you more computer programming savvy folks can help :)

This is the response I get from the client servers. We only use one server (Faith) and channel (#sound), and use unique user names. :
Lua version 1.3/5.1 loaded.
Update Checker plugin loaded
* Looking up 10.10.2.91
* Connecting to 10.10.2.91:6667 (10.10.2.91:6667)
* Connection failed (Connection timed out)
Cycling to next server in Faith...
* Disconnected ()

This is what shows on the Host server after connecting to "Faith":

(Under Faithbc):
Lua version 1.3/5.1 loaded.
Update Checker plugin loaded
* Looking up 10.10.2.91
* Connecting to 10.10.2.91:6667 (10.10.2.91:6667)
* Connected. Now logging in.
* *** Looking up your hostname...
* *** Couldn't resolve your hostname; using your IP address instead
* Capabilities supported: unrealircd.org/plaintext-policy=user=allow,oper=warn,server=deny unrealircd.org/link-security=2 extended-join chghost cap-notify userhost-in-names multi-prefix away-notify account-notify tls
* Capabilities requested: extended-join chghost cap-notify userhost-in-names multi-prefix away-notify account-notify
* Capabilities acknowledged: extended-join chghost cap-notify userhost-in-names multi-prefix away-notify account-notify
* Welcome to the faithbc IRC Network Streaming!Streaming@10.10.2.91
* Your host is irc.welcometo.faith, running version UnrealIRCd-4.2.1
* This server was created Wed Dec 26 23:09:01 2018
* irc.welcometo.faith UnrealIRCd-4.2.1 iowrsxzdHtIDZRqpWGTSB lvhopsmntikraqbeIzMQNRTOVKDdGLPZSCcf
* UHNAMES NAMESX SAFELIST HCN MAXCHANNELS=13 CHANLIMIT=#:13 MAXLIST=b:60,e:60,I:60 MAXNICKLEN=30 NICKLEN=30 CHANNELLEN=32 TOPICLEN=307 KICKLEN=307 AWAYLEN=307 :are supported by this server
* MAXTARGETS=20 WALLCHOPS WATCH=128 WATCHOPTS=A SILENCE=15 MODES=12 CHANTYPES=# PREFIX=(qaohv)~&@%+ CHANMODES=beI,kLf,l,psmntirzMQNRTOVKDdGPZSCc NETWORK=faithbc CASEMAPPING=ascii EXTBAN=~,tmTSOcaRrnqj ELIST=MNUCT :are supported by this server
* STATUSMSG=~&@%+ EXCEPTS INVEX CMDS=USERIP,STARTTLS,KNOCK,DCCALLOW,MAP :are supported by this server
* 9423BB0D.8E9BADE8.1F6B332C.IP :is now your displayed host
* There are 1 users and 0 invisible on 1 servers
* I have 1 clients and 0 servers
* 1 4 :Current local users 1, max 4
* 1 3 :Current global users 1, max 3
* MOTD File is missing
* Streaming sets mode +i on Streaming

(Under #sound):
* Loaded log from Sun Dec 1 11:39:53 2024
* Now talking on #sound

I looked back through the logs, whenever the clients would join, it would show up as one of the following:
* FOHAdmin (FOH_@FB8DCAD4.8E9BADE8.1F6B332C.IP) has joined (this is the sound desk PC)
* Ed (FOH_@FB8DCAD4.8E9BADE8.1F6B332C.IP) has joined (this is the sound desk PC but different user)
* Video (Video@60DDC9A8.8E9BADE8.1F6B332C.IP) has joined (this is the video booth PC)

So far I've tried manually adding Hexchat to the Windows Defender firewall on both the Client and Host computers, updating Hexchat to the most recent version (HexChat 2.16.1, which I hear is the final verison, i.e. discontinued now?), and trying various checkbox settings, no changes.

I've also opened multiple channel sessions on the Host PC and been able to talk back and forth between Streaming and Recording users just fine (on the same PC), so it's definitely something to do with talking with remote computers.

The current Network List / Faith Server settings on the Client PC are below.
I have tried turning pretty much all of these on and off on both Host and Client PCs to no avail:

Network List Faith server Settings on Client PC

The current Network List / Faith Server settings on the Host PC are below:

Network List Faith server Settings on Host PC

Anybody have any ideas or is this an unfixable issue if Windows broke it and Hexchat won't be updated due to being discontinued?

Thanks for any help,
Jeff

i used to use supybot (before it was limnoria) on my old IRCd. it used to have a plugin called Cobe that you could install that would watch the chat and generate a 'corpus' file from 'watching' the chat - after a week or so it was capable of chatting with us.

this was 2013 or so, back in the py2.7 days. python3 wont work, and i tried converting it from 2.7 to 3 with no luck either... i think it depended on the old python-cobe package to work.

ANYWAYS

can i get some suggestions for chatbots? im cool with moving to eggdrop if necessary. i'd like something that can duplicate what i described above. i know about chatgpt bots but im not interested in that. i want a bot that 'learns' from the users.

any help would be super super appreciated!

EDIT: i am considering installing an old archived debian (i actually have an old pentium 3 for this purpose) and seeing if i can find the old code to run it again

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im interested if i can run somehow a service or something to be able to display an avatar to a custom ident that i usually use, but be able to show my avatar to people using irrcloud.

anyone ran into this before?

i've been running an ngircd instance on my home network to chat with a few friends. its a pretty neat break from the monotony of facebook chat and group text messages. theres also the piece of mind of knowing that our own conversations are actually private!

its so simple to spin up an ngircd on a spare linux pc, and most ISPs dont seem to block 6667. why isnt this more popular? with the way social media networks abuse our privacy i'd think regular folks doing some digital homesteading would be a bigger thing. i also have a small imageboard for us to make dumb jokes on. its fun.

anybody else out there do this kind of thing?

Hello I am a complete beginner and I am just looking for a place to chat preferably a server that masks my ip/hostname and is not full of degenerates

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Can it be used as a normal user in a channel that provides commands and navigation that frequently require the user to write 1, 2, 3 .... N in different messages until every desired task is done?

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As I can't seem to get it using command line, let alone install it to a point where I can configure it.

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Anyone here an expert with python + IRC + open ai?

Hi everyone! Im looking for the following:

Boss Script XP by ^Beacon-Knight^ Bitch-X Script by IRC|pHrEak BlinkIRC by timmy

Cheers!

You used BitchX and connect to an irc network and server messages and motd would auto ignore text and notifications in the status screen??? 😂😂😂 like 24 years ago while in junior high and red hat desktop Linux

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see title, i just started using irc today (thelounge) and when i connect to irc.rizon.net it says my connection is insecure i probably forgot to secure my connection or something what do i do to do that?

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I'm not sure what the issue is exactly. I can connect to LiberaChat, but not DALnet. It just keeps timing out.

12:41 <*status> IRC connection timed out. Reconnecting...  
12:43 <*status> IRC connection timed out. Reconnecting...  
12:45 <*status> IRC connection timed out. Reconnecting...  
12:47 <*status> IRC connection timed out. Reconnecting...  
12:49 <*status> IRC connection timed out. Reconnecting...

I can connect to the server just fine using openssl s_client or irssi, so I'm not sure what exactly is the issue with znc specifically. Can any ZNC user try connecting to irc.dal.net +6697 and see if you have the same problem?

Edit. Fixed! It was a configuration issue. I was binding to the wrong source IP, which was on an interface that does not have internet access.

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If i just log the channel, i would need to cut the logs when receiving such a request, which, if that happens after a while, would be a whole lot of work.

Which is why i am looking for a bot that creates user-specific logs. Eg. User 1 is in the channel from 3-5 User 2 is in the channel from 1-4 User 3 is in the channel from 2-4

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Meaning it creates four logs.

Is there a bot like that ?

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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^^

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

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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

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