RIriffic·Aug 27, 2020
Another Perl client from back in the day:
https://github.com/leedo/alice
In The Lounge – Modern web IRC client designed for self-hostingleedo
alice
JavaScript2012–2020
leedo / alice
alice
IRC client viewed in WebKit or Gecko
6Distinct people
7Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
106GitHub stars
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HN mentions by year7 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2012-03-01 22:17:32 UTC to 2020-08-27 18:41:43 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
7 sources> clone of IRCCloud. Easy.
https://github.com/leedo/alice
In Mozilla is giving up on their IRC serverhttps://github.com/leedo/alice is another one. Used to be hosted but they stopped running it.
In HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewerSounds a lot like Alice: https://github.com/leedo/alice
In Show HN: An open source IRC client for your web browserCongratulations to the Grove.io team! Its great that this product is able to keep going.
I have been following Grove.io pretty closely. This is a subject that is fairly interesting to me and compelled me to look at some of the different open source options[0], as they do exist for teams that are able to run their own chat. I decided to write my own chat client with a fellow HNer called Subway[1], since I could not find a good open source web client that persisted a connection while a user was offline. After I started I found another large project that more or less accomplishes the same thing called Alice[2] written in Perl. Both these clients have more or less the same goal to persist your connection while you are offline. For those interested in a paid alternative to grove there is also IRCCloud[3] which accomplishes the same thing.
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Looks a lot like Alice: https://github.com/leedo/alice which powers http://usealice.org
In Show HN: Subway, a persistent web client for IRC