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What is IRC? It stands for internet relay chat, and despite being developed in 1988, it is still a very useful means of low-bandwidth communication, serving hundreds of thousands of users daily across the world. We have created our own IRC Server at irc.sylnt.us, port 6667. Won't you join us?
"Some have asked why we run our own servers instead of using a public one such as freenode.net. We did this to have control of the TOS, copyright, DMCA, and other legal issues. I like freenode (and their TOS) a lot, but we're building a community and we should make our own choices.
Landon, our overlord of IRC, set this up with a lot of help from his team. He also set us up a link-shortener sylnt.us domain for the Twitter account: that rocks! So send him some love if you see him on IRC - he's doing a bang-up job!
Speaking of Twitter, Bender, our IRC bot, posts the headlines to our Twitter account, so feel free to follow us there."
(Score: 1) by Boxzy on Monday February 24 2014, @02:15AM
I haven't looked in the play store yet, is there an open source IRC app?
Go green, Go Soylent.
(Score: 4, Informative) by mrbluze on Monday February 24 2014, @02:39AM
I don't know if it's open source or not, but AndChat works nicely and is without ads and isn't crippled.
Do it yourself, 'cause no one else will do it yourself.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by everdred on Monday February 24 2014, @03:29AM
When I looked about a year ago, Andchat was the way to go.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Marand on Monday February 24 2014, @07:22AM
The one I prefer using on Android is qicr [google.com]. Source is open (here [github.com]), works well despite the beta tag, and the UI is much better than the others I tried.
(Score: 2, Informative) by lhsi on Monday February 24 2014, @09:56AM
There is Yaaic (Yet Another Android IRC Client) on F-Droid (the Open Source Android app repository): https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=ir c&fdid=org.yaaic [f-droid.org]
I used it a little a couple of years ago, but not recently. I might install it again and have a look at the SoylentNews IRC though.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Aiwendil on Monday February 24 2014, @01:49PM
This might be a tad bit off from what you where asking for but the most common way for people to irc via their androids is to run screen+irssi on their home machine and then use Irssi Connectbot as ssh-client from their phone
And personally I also couple it with "hackers keyboard" (five-row onscreen keyboard)
(Score: 1) by cykros on Tuesday February 25 2014, @02:04AM
Personally, I use irssi-connectbot (yes, that's the full name of the app) which is basically a version of connectbot (the popular android ssh client) that is configured to make using irssi on a remote host more reasonable from a touch screen interface, adding things like swipe-to-change-window (instead of /win goto #) and other conveniences. Makes it easy to jump between android and the desktop without missing a beat. And given that irssi exists for Windows too, this is a pretty cross-platform solution. And yes, it's open source.