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An open source IRC client for your web browser

Shown by cjstewart88 on Feb 1, 2013. Click the card to turn it over.

44points

18comments

#572of 1,739 in 2013

Top 33%of 2013 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.26.

Idea: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against

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Requires a server, so it is not fully client-side as the title implies
From 3 comments
- Seems like both of them require as server. Something I think means the title is misleading about. It's certainly ambiguous. I was excited to see a browser based, all client side…
  stedaniels on HN
- I'm not sure I see how you can connect to an irc server directly from the browser without some sort of proxy. You can't do TCP from js.
  Wilya on HN
- Not directly. More like TCP-like messaging over HTTP. The server needs to understand the websockets protocol. Writing a basic server that strips the websockets part from messages…
  Wilya on HN
Lacks logging/bouncer and multi-user features compared to Subway
From 1 comment
- nirc is not near as feature rich as subway at first glance. There's no logging(bouncer) when you disconnect or multi users. However, you can simply open a new tab and connect to…
  cjstewart88 on HN

Add a user list in the UI
From 1 comment
- nirc is not near as feature rich as subway at first glance. There's no logging(bouncer) when you disconnect or multi users. However, you can simply open a new tab and connect to…
  cjstewart88 on HN

How does it compare to Subway?
From 1 comment
- How does this compare to subway? https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway
  driverdan on HN

Subway
From 1 comment
- How does this compare to subway? https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway
  driverdan on HN
Alice
From 1 comment
- Sounds a lot like Alice: https://github.com/leedo/alice
  clint on HN