IRC

Live Chat protocol

RemoteWikiURL:irc://irc.freenode.net/#

The biggest problem with IRC as a Group Discussion medium is that a newcomer can't see what was said before he came in.

• in theory you could have some IrcBot recording things and streaming them to an archive page. This has implied-PrivAcy issues - the people having the chat at the previous moments were speaking in the context of the chat membership at that time, and no the context changes after-the-fact...
• see Irc Cloud below

Nov'2014: Albert Wenger recommends improvements.

Clients I use

• on MsWindows: I'm using GAim for the moment, though I have used Trillian and ChatZilla.

• Colloquy on MacOs X

  • uses WebKit

  • saves transcripts [as](http://colloquy.info/project/wiki/Development/Styles/Log File Format) XML

    • simplest converter 'xsltproc plaintext.xsl mycolloquylog.xml'

    • may want to look at this

JavaScript client! Kiwi Irc https://kiwiirc.com/

http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/irctutorial.html#cmds

http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/ircprimer.html

some rooms:

• joiito
• wiki IRC:wiki
• zwiki
• zope
• blueOxen
• python

I wonder whether IRC (or at least freenode) will get overwhelmed at some point.

I wonder whether ISP-s will start offering IRC hosting as part of a low-end hosting package. Or whether there's a P2P model for Live Chat

An IrcBot is an app that pretends to be another user - it listens for things and responds by posting output to the channel.

Irc Cloud - paid IRC service

• https://www.irccloud.com/pricing
• *"Does IRCCloud act as a BNC/bouncer and stay connected when I go offline?" "Yes it does – you will stay connected to IRC even if you shutdown your computer or sign out of IRCCloud.com. This means when you come back, you'll be able to see what happened on IRC whilst you were away."
• but can't download log files, can't use standard IRC client...