irccloud-tools

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ancarda·Sep 9, 2019

Maybe $100? I suppose it would depend on features. Honestly though, something open source where I make a recurring donation (i.e. Patreon, GitHub Sponsor) might be better, since that may mean development over a longer period of time I'd be willing to pay for a native (not Electron) macOS app that can connect to IRCCloud[1] [1] https://github.com/irccloud/irccloud-tools/wiki/API-Overview

In Ask HN: How much would you pay for a beautiful IRC client for Mac?

gshulegaard·Mar 4, 2016

I don't think that IRC Cloud was originally based on websocket...I think it used 'keep-alive' but I could be wrong. Although it still has documentation on how to use HTTPS for stream end-points (https://github.com/irccloud/irccloud-tools/wiki/API-Overview). Also can't find much information about WebRTC support for IRC Cloud.

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jwheare2·Jan 31, 2016

As a web app, it's actually a lot easier to make modifications than desktop software, without needing an unwieldy encyclopaedia of settings checkboxes. For things that are common requests, we work on adding appropriate settings, but it's impossible to give everyone exactly what they want, so custom user stylesheets and scripts are generally the answer. Check out https://userstyles.org/styles/browse/irccloud for some examples, have a look on our wiki: https://github.com/irccloud/irccloud-tools/wiki or join our #themes channel on irc.irccloud.com for info and help on customising the ui. Often, the best community extensions get integrated into the app, but we're still a small team so it can take time :)

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metabrew·Nov 29, 2013

Hi, one of the irccloud team. Can answer any questions if you like. Some info: * Erlang, haproxy, rabbitmq, redis, postgres, cassandra, chef * 10+ billion irc lines stored at the last count * Thousands of IPv6 IRC connections - we give each user their own IPv6 address. Main site also works over ipv6. * Thousands of IPv4 connections too * Open source android and ios apps: https://blog.irccloud.com/mobile-apps-open-sourced/ * API: https://github.com/irccloud/irccloud-tools/wiki/API-Overview * Details on our security, password storage, etc: https://www.irccloud.com/privacy I've mentioned this on HN before, but we moved our hosting off Hetzner and on to Black Lotus for the ddos-protection. We see fairly frequent ddos attacks, from a few hundred mbit to 10+ gbit. They aren't impacting service since we moved to black lotus.

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