[jaabe]

I’m probably bad but I honestly can’t get slack to work with all the different communities I’ve been invited to. Discord basically works like IRC, except almost every channel I’m in is by invitation only, making it almost impossible for new people to join.

In my opinion IRC is still the best tool out there and I really, really wonder why we stopped using it.

[coldpie]

I think by a wide margin the biggest problem is that IRC doesn't have any offline features. In a world where people swap devices all the time, it really sucks to have to drop your connection on every device change, and lose any chat that occurred while you were offline and be unreachable while you're offline.

[michaelmrose]

Maybe IRC should have a standard way to send an email to a user wherein the irc client knows the users email but don't reveal the users email. It could also use its intermediary status to filter obvious spam, individual channels/users could also set policy as to who is allowed to mail users for example registered accounts only.

[ghostly_s]

Well that sounds like a feature I would absolutely hate and never enable. Offline messages need to live in the same place as online messages.

[kuschku]

So use IRCCloud or selfhosted Quasseldroid+Quassel? Or maybe even Matrix with Riot and the IRC bridge?

[cpach]

IRCCloud is really neat. Great UI IMHO. However, I must admit I’m too cheap to pay $50 USD/year for something that I use even less than once a month. So I go with irssi+screen instead.

[kuschku]

In that case you may want to try quassel + quassel-webserver + quasseldroid, which gets you something very close to IRCCloud, entirely selfhosted

[cpach]

Cool. Looks really useful!