Always Connected IRC Client with iOS and macOS apps? reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pezmc · 2019-05-22 16:07 I've been using a [self-hosted slack bridge](https://github.com/aeirola/slack-irc-client) to access IRC for the last few months, but it's been getting less and less reliable and no longer supports DM's due to Slack changes. Can anyone recommend a better way to access IRC, with push notification support and "nice" iOS and macOS apps? Preferably self hosted, but paying for a service wouldn't be the end of the world. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saber_UK · 2019-05-22 16:14 You might be interested in IRCCloud which has native Slack integration built on top of IRCv3 features. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jockl132 · 2019-05-22 20:05 Have you heard of [matrix.org](https://matrix.org/blog/index)? Matrix is well [bridged](https://matrix.org/docs/projects/bridges) to most popular irc networks, and has a nice iOS client (Riot) and [seaglass](https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/seaglass.html) is native macOS client which I heard good things about ---------------------------------------------------------------------- webvictim · 2019-05-22 20:09 [IRCCloud](https://www.irccloud.com/) would probably be my choice. It's fairly cheap if you pay by the year (around $4/month or so) and has great iOS and Android apps with push notifications and many customisation options, plus it can be used from any web browser. I don't know if they have a native app for MacOS that they've written themselves, but there's something like https://github.com/irccloud/irccloud-desktop which wraps the browser window inside a native app framework. Alternatively, [Quassel](https://quassel-irc.org/) is meant to be alright and is self-hosted. I'm unsure whether it has push notifications on iOS, however. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cutzenfriend · 2019-05-22 20:17 As far as I can see they are loggging ALL your chats (rooms & private) and you can't disable it. Sadly that's a huge reason not to use this service :( All the rest sounds good... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LtSmegma · 2019-05-22 20:34 Cheap [VPS](https://www.vultr.com/) with [ZNC](https://wiki.znc.in/ZNC) installed. [Textual](https://www.codeux.com/textual/) IRC client for MacOS and [Mutter](https://www.mutterirc.com/) for iOS. The [ZNC](https://wiki.znc.in/ZNC) integration in Textual is pretty good. I use [mutter-push](https://bitbucket.org/jmclough/mutter- push/src/master/) on my [ZNC](https://wiki.znc.in/ZNC) for mobile highlights. Works well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityWiseGuy · 2019-05-22 21:22 Quassel. That's the answer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saber_UK · 2019-05-22 22:37 Literally every persistent hosted chat service has chat logging. What do you think Slack is doing with all of your messages? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OMGItsCheezWTF · 2019-05-22 23:11 WeeChat is an irc client that supports SSL relays. There are clients that support the relay for iOS, web and Android. I actually found myself using the web client near universally. https://weechat.org/ https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear ---------------------------------------------------------------------- trekkie1701c · 2019-05-23 00:05 Seconding ZNC. I run one for myself and a few friends and it's great for sort of smoothing out the problems you'd otherwise have with a mobile connection (disconnects as you swap to/from Wifi, mobile signal loss, etc). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cutzenfriend · 2019-05-23 08:43 The difference here is that if I delete a Chatroom also the logs should get deleted. Since you are joining "public" rooms on irc the logs will stay even if you leave... at least thats my understanding. But I even don't use slack tho :D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 231723175 · 2019-05-23 09:22 run a weechat somewhere and SSL into it wuth glowing bear ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jaycolson · 2019-05-23 11:39 quassel all the way .. i use that + irslackd (for slack bridge) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- justjanne · 2019-05-27 17:43 Quassel doesn't have push notifications on iOS yet, but we're planning a complete rewrite of the iOS app (similar to Quasseldroid's recent rewrite). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- whjms · 2019-06-06 15:23 FWIW you should assume that everyone in a public room is logging anything. Not even maliciously, some people just keep logs and most people run bouncers which log stuff anyways.