Experiences self-hosting an IRC bouncer? - eviltoast

I’ve been enjoying chatting on IRC and was wondering if anyone has any relevant experience with any bouncers?

I tried setting up ZNC but could not get any clients to work with it.

I finally settled on soju with goguma as client, but since no up-to-date Docker container existed, I had to create my own Dockerfile for that.

For now, it’s only available on my LAN (proxied through nginx), and am uncertain if exposing it externally is a good idea (I already have a VPN, but prefer to expose services if it’s safe to do so).

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    3 days ago

    Yeah, but again…habit and effort.

    I can’t think of a single reason that IRC is still used except for people being too lazy to adopt something else.