Is there a bouncer that stores history per-computer rather than per-
user?
reddit / irc

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R1cket · 2014-03-04 03:14

I use IRC at home and at work. Both places I am connected to Freenode,
and both places I currently use bip. So I have two separate copies of
bip on two server machines, logged into two nicks (the work one
suffixed with `|work`).

This works, but then I have to idle with two nicks in every room I
want to watch. The problem is, if I were to consolidate and use only
one copy of bip, then there's only one backlog. If I leave my IRC
client open at home and then log in at work, I would not get any
backlog, since bip knows I was already logged in and have received all
the messages.

What I would like, is a bouncer where I can have multiple profiles for
the same nick. So bip has one connection as one nick, and then my home
computer has its backlog, and when I log into work I get all the
messages since the previous workday.

Are any of the bouncers capable of this? Is this totally crazy, do you
have a suggestion for how I should instead change my workflow?

The only thing I don't want to do, before you suggest it, is keep an
irssi session open and SSH to it from work or home. I already heavily
use GNU screen and everything, I just like GUI IRC clients. I don't
want my IRC session to be inside a terminal window.

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kellyzdude · 2014-03-04 09:45

You could try ZNC, I log into my single user accounts (three, one for
each network) from multiple locations and have it configured to always
share the backlog. It's annoying when I'm having internet issues and
it has to share the backlog every few minutes, but it's an improvement
over no backlog because it assumes I'm still logged in.

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omwah · 2014-03-04 18:53

You could use [irssi as a
proxy](http://michael.lustfield.net/linux/irssi-as-a-proxy) and then
connect from whatever client you like. Using some scripts mentioned on
the linked site you go away when your proxy disconnects and you will
get a backlog sent to you when you reconnect.