Chat

Live public or private messages.

• http://tapchatapp.com/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging

MUD

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD

• http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm

Talker

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talker

IRC

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
• http://www.irchelp.org/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_commands
• http://www.technerd.net/irc-commands.html

Culture

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat_subculture

• http://cyber.eserver.org/reid.txt

• http://wiki.sourcemage.org/IRC.html
• http://sol.gfxile.net/dontask.html

• http://www.bash.org/

GUI clients

Xchat

• http://xchat.org/

Hexchat

• http://hexchat.org/

Quassel IRC

• http://quassel-irc.org/

CLI clients

Irssi

• http://irssi.org/

set timestamp_format %H:%M:%S
/server ADD -auto -network freenode irc.freenode.net 6667
/channel ADD -auto #channel NetworkName password

Stuff

• http://scripts.irssi.org/
• http://www.irssi.org/themes

Guides

• http://laurimakinen.net/2009/04/13/ultimate-irssi-guide-for-beginners/
• http://www.distancex.net/2011/06/my-perfect-irssi-setup.html

Weechat

• http://www.weechat.org/

Installation

• http://www.weechat.org/files/doc/stable/weechat_user.en.html#compile_with_autotools

Commands

/server add oftc irc.oftc.net/6667
/connect oftc

/set irc.look.server_buffer independent
/input jump_smart - jump to next buffer with activity
/input hotlist_clear - clear activity

/key bind meta2-18~ /bar scroll buffers * -30% - bind F7 to buffers.pl up
/key bind meta2-19~ /bar scroll buffers * +30% - bind F8 to buffers.pl down

Ctrl-r - Search buffer (enter to esc.)

alt-k [key] - display key and binding

Docs

• Quickstart
• Users guide

• http://dev.weechat.org/post/2008/10/25/Smart-IRC-join-part-quit-message-filter

/set irc.look.smart_filter on 
/filter add irc_smart * irc_smart_filter *

Scripts

• Scripts
  • weeget.py - script manager
  • autoconnect - remembers servers+channels joined
  • buffers.pl - lists buffers in sidebar
    • /set weechat.bar.buffers.position right
    • /set buffers.look.sort name (window number order doesn't follow!)
  • urlbuf.py - url catcher buffer
  • whois_on_query.py - as title
  • go.py - jump to buffer
  • sort_buffers.pl - as title.
  • listsort.pl - better than nowt
    • to check; https://github.com/FiXato/listbuffer

Scripting

http://www.weechat.org/files/doc/stable/weechat_plugin_api.en.html#_weechat_config_color_default
weechat.color.chat_buffer [1]

python:
 you have to import weechat
 functions print* are called prnt* in python (because print is reserved keyword)
 functions are called with weechat.xxx(arg1, arg2, ...)

weechat.register(name, author, version, license, description, shutdown_function, charset) [2]

import weechat
weechat.register("test_python", "FlashCode", "1.0", "GPL3", "Test script", "", "")
weechat.prnt("", "Hello, from python script!")

BitchX

• http://www.bitchx.com/

EPIC

• http://www.epicsol.org/doku.php

Web clients

• https://github.com/Fauntleroy/relay.js

• https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway

• https://kiwiirc.com/

Services

Some channels require a nickserv registered nick before joining. Thus, changing to an unregistered nick can give a "Cannot change nickname while banned on channel" message.

Bouncer

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNC_(software)

• http://wiki.znc.in/ZNC
  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Znc

BitlBee

• BitlBee brings IM (instant messaging) to IRC clients. It's a great solution for people who have an IRC client running all the time and don't want to run an additional MSN/AIM/whatever client. BitlBee currently supports the following IM networks/protocols: XMPP/Jabber (including Google Talk), MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM and ICQ, and the Twitter microblogging network (plus all other Twitter API compatible services like identi.ca and status.net).
  • Docs
  • Quickstart HTML

Servers

hub and leaf servers, mesh network. sordid history of de facto and flavours of amended protocol use.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRCd

• https://github.com/fluffle/goirc

• https://code.google.com/p/tircd/ - twitter tags as channels

Articles

• http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/04/24/irc-is-dead-long-live-irc/

Jabber/XMPP

• XMPP - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol

Powers Jabber/GChat/GTalk/AIM.

Server

• http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/

• http://www.ejabberd.im/
  • https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Set_up_a_federated_XMPP_Chat_Network_with_ejabberd.html

• http://www.tigase.org/

• https://prosody.im/ - lua

Service

• OneSocialWeb XMPP based social network

GUI clients

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_instant_messaging_clients#XMPP-related_features

• http://gajim.org/
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gajim

• http://kde.org/applications/internet/kopete/
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopete

• http://pidgin.im/
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin_(software)

• http://sat.goffi.org/

CLI clients

• https://github.com/boothj5/profanity
• http://mcabber.com/
• http://poez.io/en/

See BitlBee

• http://cybione.org/~irssi-xmpp/
• http://www.weechat.org/scripts/source/jabber.py.html/

Web

• http://strophe.im/strophejs/
• https://github.com/ESTOS/strophe.jingle

• https://xmpp-ftw.jit.su/
  • http://blog.superfeedr.com/easy-xmpp-ftw/ - 'jmpp'

• Candy — a JavaScript-based multi-user chat client

Modern chat

HipChat

Service. "HipChat is hosted group chat and IM for companies and teams. Supercharge real-time collaboration with persistent chat rooms, file sharing, and chat history."

• http://hipchat.com/

Sqwiggle

• Sqwiggle is an always on online workplace for your remote team to work together throughout the day.
  • http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/sqwiggle-makes-working-remotely-less-lonely-more-awesome/

Hubot

Like HipChat.

Made at GitHub.

• http://hubot.github.com/
  • https://github.com/github/hubot/wiki
  • https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts

echoplexus

mix of chat, drawing, code scratchpad and video.

• https://echoplex.us/ [3]
  • https://github.com/qq99/echoplexus

other

• https://floobits.com/ - service
  • https://github.com/Floobits

• http://madeye.io/

Encrypted

• http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/

Bitmessage

• Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data, like the sender and receiver of messages, from passive eavesdroppers like those running warrantless wiretapping programs.
  • https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_dTotavJZ8

Tox

via 4chan

• http://tox.im/ [4]
  • https://github.com/irungentoo/ProjectTox-Core
  • http://wiki.tox.im/index.php/Main_Page

Other

• https://github.com/jeztek/deadchat

• https://github.com/aarnott/ironpigeon

• https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/

• http://goldbug.sourceforge.net/

Automation

irc/forum bots, wikipedia, reddit, etc.

• HN: GitHub Says ‘No Thanks’ to Bots — Even if They’re Nice