05-07-2020, 01:55 AM
(05-06-2020, 08:43 PM)Dendrocalamus64 Wrote: Hexchat is preinstalled on the PBP, widely available in various distros, and the debian version is like 627 kB + 4256 kB disk space for hexchat + hexchat common, two packages & one apt-get command. Not exactly dependency hell & and it's not complicated to configure.
That might be the case, but it doesn't solve one of the major issues one would use a service like irc cloud for, which is continuous presence across devices... although for that I used to use a ssh tunnel into a pine64 I left permanently logged into IRC, and later I instead used weechat as a IRC relay. But hexchat is a simple and light option, available for most OSs and architectures. As far as use case the digitaldaz hinted at, best fix would be to reinstate the web IRC chat, but I don't see that happening as it was already falling apart before the transition to the cluster.