ngIRCd IRC Daemon (@ngircd@social.tchncs.de)
social.tchncs.de
ngIRCd 27 is released, a lightweight Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server software. You can find more information on our homepage (https://ngircd.barton.de), the mailing list post (https://lists.barton.de/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/ngircd@lists.barton.de/message/Y5KOJXWE74THZUIDBZRKXAGZ66V7S6RJ/) and on the GitHub release page (https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/releases/tag/rel-27) – have fun! #ngircd #ircd #irc #unix #linux #bsd

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14931443

More than three years have passed since the last release of ngIRCd – a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for small or private networks – and more than 130 individual patches have accumulated in the Git “master branch” in the meantime. Some are cosmetic, some bring new functionality, others improve the documentation or fix bugs. All in all, it’s more than time for the next “big” release of ngIRCd!

And here it is, ngIRCd release 27! 🎉 https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/releases/tag/rel-27

    • Max-P
      9•7 months ago

      It’s still pretty popular for most FOSS communities and the only way to get live support by the community, so yes, very much so.

      The big advantage is you don’t need to sign up for anything, zero terms and conditions to agree too, zero personal information to give away unlike Discord which now wants phone numbers and such for most servers.

      • @B0rax@feddit.de
        1•7 months ago

        It’s still pretty popular for most FOSS communities

        Do you have examples? Most communities I know are on discord…

        • @AProfessional@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1•7 months ago

          They are older, more system level projects. See libera and OFTC.

          To counter your experience Ive only seen emulators use Discord.

    • @taladar@sh.itjust.works
      5•7 months ago

      Why not? There aren’t really any good alternatives out there if you want a chat without gifs and embedded images and videos and all that stuff that requires basically a whole web view to render it.

      • lemmyreaderOPEnglish
        1•7 months ago

        Exactly. And IRC allows one to very quickly ask a tech question via web IRC chat or IRC client without having to sign up somewhere (Discord, Matrix, Mattermost and so on).

          • lemmyreaderOPEnglish
            1•7 months ago

            IRC by itself is really ancient and certainly has drawbacks but given the amount of mobile apps, desktop apps and web apps for it and the fact that anyone can easily join as guest without needing to hand out any information (email address, name, phone number) is hard to beat. Things like Discord, revolt.chat, Matrix, SimpleX Chat, Session and team chat like Mattermost, RocketChat, Zulip have their users and its benefits in the open source world.