Goodbye XMPP. Hello IRC
reddit / irc

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WaxerUK · 2018-06-12 21:14

Good evening, I am a novice at IRC and such, although I am 46 and have
been using message boards since 1983 when our BBC model B computers
were networked. I love the thought of self hosted message exchange but
have no idea how I would implement that. I am considering building a
server which originally was just for movies and photos to be streamed
to all house devices (local only). I now think I could build a very
cheap or free old PC that could do all of the above.

Your post has inspired me and I am now looking around for a
solution... Thanks from the UK!

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fattredd · 2018-06-13 03:11

And where might we find this code?

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mndrix · 2018-06-13 15:17

It's in a private repository. The code is very specific to my family's
needs, so I assumed nobody wanted to see it.  If there's sufficient
interest, I can separate the private from public portions and publish.

It'd be like a [suckless](https://suckless.org/) tool where
configuration is isolated in a config.go file that users have to edit
before compiling it themselves.

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prawnsalad · 2018-06-16 13:31

I'm experimenting on similar things myself right now (also in golang)
so it would awesome to see how you've gone about it :)

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mndrix · 2018-06-16 19:01

I've posted the code in a Gist at
https://gist.github.com/mndrix/7947009178e4a18c247b4bd25821661f

I added some explanatory comments and a liberal license towards the
top.  If you have any questions about the code, I'm glad to explain
what I was thinking.

Since this code only has 7 users and a couple bots, many design
decisions won't scale, but it works for us.  Enjoy.