weechat-android

Simple Weechat-Relay Android Client

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Simple Weechat-Relay Android Client

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lorenzhs·Aug 11, 2016

I agree with the author on many points, but he's wrong about mobile support. WeeChat has a relay plugin (built-in) that allows mobile clients to connect to your existing WeeChat session. There are even some options to choose from: WeeChat-Android has recently gotten some love again (I hear it works nicely), and Glowing Bear works on every device that has a modern browser and has a nice responsive UI, along with some neat features like embeds and direct imgur upload. Both connect to your WeeChat instance directly, so there's no cloud provider you have to trust, as the relay works as a socket and websocket. This allows Glowing Bear to work in the browser (Disclosure: I'm one of the devs) https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear https://github.com/ubergeek42/weechat-android Oh and the point about long URLs being unclickable has been addr

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essed by bare mode, which is bound to meta-L by default. This is not a concern for the mobile clients obviously, as they don't run in a terminal.

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