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What's your preference for a text chat server (e.g. IRC/XMPP/Matrix/Zulip/etc.)? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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There seem to be plentiful options for text chat servers, so I'm curious for those that self-host their own, what their preferences & experiences have been with them.

Also those mentioned in the title were just a few examples, if you run something else, e.g. Revolt or Mattermost or something else less popular, would be interested in reading about it!

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[–] erev@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I both love and hate this. I love to see IRC getting some love and these features are massive QoL improvements. I say this as a regular IRC user. On the other hand though, no touch da fishy.

[–] Anafroj@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They do maintain the simplicity of the line oriented protocol, so I'm fine with that. :)

That's the strongest point of IRC, IMO, and why it's kept so simple : every instruction is a plain text line, period. It makes it incredibly simple to build on top of it. You don't need to introduce a dependency to a project that probably will be abandonned in a few years, at which point you'll have to rewrite your codebase to use an other dependency, for a few years. You just open a TCP connection, you read lines from the socket and write lines to it, each line is its own instruction structured in well known fields, and that's it. It's so simple!

As long as IRCv3 sticks to that, they have my blessing. :)