Quoth Polarian <[email protected]>: > As a disclaimer I have nothing against libera.chat, I think its a solid > network and the staff are friendly enough. But I still think that > people should put more emphasises on running their own IRC network for > their projects. You can slap ngircd onto a raspberry pi running OpenBSD > and would be able to handle thousands of people. That was, and still > is, the amazing thing about IRC, just how light and simple it is.
sure, i run a private ircd on ngircd and config is very simple but then you have to setup some services, at the very least nickserv if you can't trust users to not nick into eachother, and setting up atheme is boring especially because there's no package. i'm thankful it exists as an ircd-independent solution (anope is in c++. ew) but ya it's too big next to ngircd in source code and config. i wish there was a simpler solution for ppl who only want a nickserv and maybe chanserv too. or maybe different projects, each implementing a singular service so you can only install the services you want and run each of them as a separate daemon. if anyone knows of something like that lemme know. -- noodle
