Chat

Live public or private messages.

General

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

MUD

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MU*

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_MUDs

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

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOO
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSH

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_creation

• http://www.gammon.com.au/mushclient/
• http://tinyfugue.sourceforge.net/

• http://list.ewtoo.org/

Talker

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talker

• http://www.pgplus.org/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUTS_(talker)

• http://h2g2.com/approved_entry/A1010106
• http://www.cheeseplant.org/~daniel/pages/cph.html

• https://github.com/lysol/typeto.me/

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

• https://github.com/shabble/irssi-scripts/tree/master/vim-mode

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

ii

• http://tools.suckless.org/ii/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ii_(IRC_client)

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

• http://tapchatapp.com/ - for mobile devices

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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_daemons

• https://github.com/fluffle/goirc

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

• http://irc.netsplit.de/
• http://search.mibbit.com/networks

Articles

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

Jabber/XMPP

• XMPP - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
  • http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Main_Page

Powers Jabber/GChat/GTalk/AIM.

Protocol

• http://xmpp.org/xmpp-protocols/xmpp-core/
  • http://xmpp.org/xmpp-protocols/rfcs/
  • http://xmpp.org/xmpp-protocols/protocol-namespaces/

• http://xmpp.org/extensions
  • http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0220.html - server dialback

General

older;

• http://www.slideshare.net/stpeter/jabber-the-realtime-internet-and-you
• http://blog.process-one.net/introducing_the_xmpp_application_server_the_twitter_example/
• http://el-tramo.be/blog/psi-jaiku/
• http://www.coverfire.com/archives/2006/04/25/jabberxmpp-pubsub/

newer;

• https://blog.thijsalkema.de/blog/2013/08/26/the-state-of-tls-on-xmpp-1/ [3]
  • https://bitbucket.org/xnyhps/xmppoke
• https://blog.thijsalkema.de/blog/2013/08/28/the-state-of-tls-on-xmpp-2/
• https://blog.thijsalkema.de/blog/2013/09/02/the-state-of-tls-on-xmpp-3/

Server

• http://xmpp.org/xmpp-software/servers/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_XMPP_server_software

• 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/tigase-server-features

• https://prosody.im/ - lua
• http://www.lightwitch.org/metronome

• http://www.psyced.org/

Libraries / Services

• http://xmpp.org/xmpp-software/libraries/

• SleekXMPP is an MIT licensed XMPP library
  • https://code.google.com/p/sleekbot/

• Poetry is a collection of simple command line tools for working with XMPP services. It aims to provide a set of tools similar to tools like dig, curl, and man, but for interacting, configuring, and querying XMPP services.

• Switchboard is both a toolkit for assembling XMPP clients as well as a set of command-line tools for interacting with XMPP servers. Ruby.

• http://search.cpan.org/dist/AnyEvent-XMPP/

• OneSocialWeb XMPP based social network. development has ended.

GUI clients

• http://xmpp.org/xmpp-software/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://sat.goffi.org/

• http://psi-im.org/

• http://tkabber.jabber.ru/

CLI clients

• https://github.com/boothj5/profanity

• mcabber is a small Jabber console client that includes SASL/SSL/TLS support, MUC (Multi-User Chat) support, history logging, command completion, OpenPGP encryption, OTR (Off-the-Record Messaging) support, dynamic modules and external action triggers.

• http://poez.io/en/

See BitlBee

• http://cybione.org/~irssi-xmpp/

• http://www.weechat.org/scripts/source/jabber.py.html/

MUC

Multi user chat, like IRC. Clients suck at implementing this.

• http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Tech_pages/Multi-User_Chat
• http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html

• https://github.com/thepug/Speeqe

• http://www.isode.com/whitepapers/irc-fmuc-and-xmpp-guards.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

Jingle

• https://github.com/ESTOS/strophe.jingle

Multisystem cleints

• http://instantbird.com/

• http://www.miranda-im.org/ - windows

Pidgin

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

Empathy

• https://wiki.gnome.org/Empathy
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy_(software)

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/ [4]
  • https://github.com/qq99/echoplexus

other

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

• http://madeye.io/

Encrypted

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging

Pidgen + OTR

• http://www.pidgin.im
  • https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple

• 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

.

• https://bitmsg.me/

Tox

via 4chan

• http://tox.im/ [5]
  • https://github.com/irungentoo/ProjectTox-Core
  • http://wiki.tox.im/index.php/Main_Page

• http://www.tox-chat.com/2013/08/tox-developer-fed-up-quits.html

Hemlis

• https://heml.is/

BitTorrent Chat

• http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/bittorrent-chat.html

Other

• https://github.com/jeztek/deadchat

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

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

• http://goldbug.sourceforge.net/

• http://bitweav.org/

Automation

irc/forum bots, wikipedia, reddit, etc.

• http://aaronparecki.com/articles/2011/02/12/1/loqi-the-friendly-irc-bot

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

• https://github.com/julien51/notifix - rss to irc/xmpp

• http://push-bot.appspot.com/ - push to xmpp