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by pferde 4514 days ago
This is why I am disappointed that SILC[1] never got off the ground in the mainstream. It could have been an elegant successor to IRC.

1. http://silcnet.org
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welterde 4514 days ago
I blame the reference (server) implementation leaving so much to be desired. Primarily stability.

I tried running a silc server alongside my ircd for a while, but it never even reached a weeks worth of uptime without crashing (no matter if debian package, self compiled stable or devel, or some minor messing with the source).

Perhaps if a non-C/C++ implementation comes along..

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pferde 4513 days ago
No, it wasn't that. There used to be (maybe still is, I didn't check) a core group of reliable servers. I remember having a client idling on them for weeks without reconnections.

What was missing, I think, was lack of client development and adoption. There was default CLI client which was a weird fork of Irssi, then there was plugin for Irssi, and not much else.

There were of course few small client projects, but few of them got past early alpha stage.

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