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ngIRCd 27 is released, a lightweight Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server software. (social.tchncs.de)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14931443

More than three years have passed since the last release of ngIRCd – a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for small or private networks – and more than 130 individual patches have accumulated in the Git “master branch” in the meantime. Some are cosmetic, some bring new functionality, others improve the documentation or fix bugs. All in all, it’s more than time for the next “big” release of ngIRCd!

And here it is, ngIRCd release 27! 🎉 https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/releases/tag/rel-27

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's still pretty popular for most FOSS communities and the only way to get live support by the community, so yes, very much so.

The big advantage is you don't need to sign up for anything, zero terms and conditions to agree too, zero personal information to give away unlike Discord which now wants phone numbers and such for most servers.

[–] refalo 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

don’t need to sign up for anything

For some IRC networks this isn't necessarily true. Many channels on Libera for example require nick registration before you can join and/or participate in chat. And that registration process blocks MANY legitimate email services including, sometimes, gmail (they don't like it if you have dots in your username for example).

And even if you get past that, now you must often deal with toxic moderators and jaded/elitist lurkers that abuse people for asking the "wrong" questions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's still pretty popular for most FOSS communities

Do you have examples? Most communities I know are on discord…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They are older, more system level projects. See libera and OFTC.

To counter your experience Ive only seen emulators use Discord.