xPaw

You only need to setup Lounge once, it supports multiple users at the same time. A non geeky person should have no trouble joining a channel.

You can use a self hosted client like The Lounge which maintains IRC connections on your own server, and then you can view the client via a web browser (so it looks great on a phone, and you can get web push notifications)

It basically acts like any other chat client (e.g. works on multiple devices at the same time)

https://thelounge.chat https://demo.thelounge.chat

If your browser supports web push spec, yes!

The Lounge solves the problems you describe: https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge#overview

The Lounge is an IRC client that solves the problems you describe (persistence on any device, synchronised unread counters, push notifications) - https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge

It does require having your own server to host it on though.

Lounge works fine on a smartphone because the actual IRC connection would be handled by a server where you host it, not your own phone.

The Lounge is a web client, so you can access it from any browser (PWA, push notification support). Since your IRC connection runs on a server, roaming and connection drops is not a problem.

https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge

The Lounge works very well on a mobile: https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge

Having Lounge reconnect to ZNC every time you start the app neglects any speed gains you'd have from running it locally. And it gives you overall a negative experience because unread markers and other things are reset.

They have different icons by default.

If that's not enough, I'm sure you could write some CSS to make the difference stand out even further. There's a custom CSS box in settings that you can put your styles in easily.

Steam protocol has been well understood for a while now: https://github.com/steamre/steamkit

Which is based on reverse engineering the Steam client, so you can implement game downloading yourself.

Was experimenting with emoji subdomain, and found that a lot of services and browsers all handle these inconsistently.

Firefox for example does not remove ZWJ from the emoji before converting it to punycode.

Microsoft Edge considers links that were manually converted to punycode invalid if they contain characters that Edge strips (like ZWJ and variation selector). Edge also returns raw emoji string in `location` API instead of punycode strings.

Safari does a whole lot of interesting things like displaying emoji instead of punycode in the address bar and use URI encoding in URLs.

Chrome seems to handle all of the cases the best.

No, it doesn't support custom emojis. Even if it did, only this particular client would display them and not any other IRC client.

If you're looking for an open source alternative to IRCCloud, then The Lounge[1] pretty much fills that niche.

[1] https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge

Yet another reason why Sublime Text is a great editor compared to Atom/VSCode.

The app doesn't care though, it just thinks it's an URL and counts the entire string as 23 characters.

Twitter indeed detects it as an URL, if you paste it into the tweet composer, but tweet renderer doesn't.

However the tricky question is, how he tweeted that? Twitter's telling me the tweet is too long if I try to tweet the same text.

The Lounge works rather nicely for non technical people, https://github.com/thelounge/lounge

ScoutLink uses it for kids with great success.

Image embedding depends on the client you use really. For example The Lounge [1] can display information about links and show image previews like Slack does.

[1] https://thelounge.github.io/

IRC clients already exist that can do most of these things, like https://thelounge.github.io

/Shameless plug

ID cards in Estonia pretty much work the way you are describing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_ID_card

Try taking a look at The Lounge, it aims to be rather modern. https://thelounge.github.io

Here the author claims you must purchase the commercial license: https://github.com/usablica/intro.js/issues/464#issuecomment...

I have a userscript that does just that, however it needs to be updated to account for these new review tools.

https://gist.github.com/xPaw/de6ee132a2e267ef6960

Yeah, the screenshot is using MongoVUE.

It's not just enterprises that use client certificates, Estonian ID cards use them too.

https://www.ria.ee/public-key-infrastructure/

What's the difference between this and existing GitHub clients?

I made this service in a couple of hours because I had nothing better to do at the time :)

I guess saying that I don't log anything wouldn't matter to you.