Simple image sharing with irc reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- XMBomb · 2015-04-26 09:53 Hi everyone I'm trying to find a chat client, in which you can share images by simply pasting them from the clipboard. Skype already has this feature, but I'd like to use a more open source / free program. Is there an IRC Client that supports pasting images? Is this generally supported by the IRC protocol? I hope this is the right subreddit to ask my question, as it is more a general question about chat clients and not irc in particular. Thank you for your suggestions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LocutusOfBorges · 2015-04-26 10:13 IRCCloud supports this. Worth a look. Anything but OSS, though. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- damiankw · 2015-04-26 10:42 Its not supported by the irc protocol, but what ive seen some things do is upload the image to webspace and share a link so people can view. Anyone who uses the same client will have it show up. Microsoft Chat in the 90's used to do this, Slack does it now ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bunburya · 2015-04-26 10:52 Could you not do this via DCC? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- damiankw · 2015-04-26 11:16 Yeah, it makes it hard with DCC. If you want to share an image with a channel, you can't do it; also, a lot of networks restrict DCC unless you've explicitly allowed a user to DCC to you, or unless both users are identified to services .. so it makes it hard to do it in a casual fashion ---------------------------------------------------------------------- XMBomb · 2015-04-26 11:46 Is Slack free, once you register an account? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- damiankw · 2015-04-26 13:22 Yeah, slack is free with limitations or something. It's not an IRC client though, it has it's own protocols .. it just allows you to log onto it with an IRC client. It's pretty good if you have a small community that you want a private chat with though. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- efreak2004 · 2015-04-26 14:08 I think mibbit does it too. Neither is actually sharing the image directly, though, they're just embedding links. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PoshBarbaricFlush · 2015-04-27 03:53 You could use [puush](http://puush.me/) for stupid-easy file hosting, but as others have said there's nothing built into IRC (the protocol itself) to support this.