Welcome to IRC Driven!

IRC Driven is a modern IRC indexing site and search engine.

Originally started in 2006, inspired by the now defunct SearchIRC, and after several rewrites we are now evolving into a social media platform for IRC. Our goal is to bring awareness to IRC, help modernize the IRC platform and prove that IRC is not dead.

Network and channel owners, admins, operators and users can all interact with each other. Network and channels can be indexed, users can create profiles, channels also get their own pages based on the network channel list. We provide several different tools to feature and highlight your network in many ways.


Announcements

IRC Driven 4.0

IRC Driven 4.0!

After over a year of work put into this. I am so happy to introduce to you guys, IRC Driven 4.0.

Lets cover the major changes here:

Website

  • Major uplift from MDBootstrap 4 to MDBootstrap 5!
  • Major integration enhancements with the wiki and forums
  • Switch from Pinax Messages to a custom made messaging app
  • Switch from Pinax Notifications to a custom made email notification handler
  • Martor, the previous editor we used has been replaced with our own custom editor.
  • User profiles have way more detail, including an activity stream
  • Channel and Network pages have quote pages now …

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Site Moved

The site has been moved to a new host. This host is way faster and using Linux instead of FreeBSD.

The bots IP has changed due to this. The reverse DNS is already updated. However, if you used the IPs directly, you will need to update them in your IRCd config's exempt block.

crawler.ircdriven.com has address 15.204.168.130 crawler.ircdriven.com has IPv6 address 2604:2dc0:140:7200::3

Even though the bot has an IPv6 address, I realized that it wasn't ever using it. I'll be adding that feature.

Coming Soon

I am working on upgrading the website from Bootstrap 4 to Bootstrap 5. Specifically Material …

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Update (Channel Bots Return)

Update

So basically there was a lot of issues I discovered over the past few months that mainly were with the API. I rewrote the API which resolved all issues with the indexer bots. I haven't had one get stuck since the rewrite.

The channel bots needed some updating (ended up being more API updates) and the channel bot is running again.

Request

I honestly don't have the time and energy to manage IRC Driven right now. Thats why development has been slow. I can definitely use some help if anyone is good with Bootstrap 4, Python/Django, or Twisted (Event …

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Channel Bot Temporarily Down

I am working on some major pushes and had to take down the channelbot. It hopefully won't be too long. I apologize for it. While you're waiting, check out some of the new stuff around the site.

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Latest Network News

Avatars in web interface

You can now assign an avatar to your account by doing /msg NickServ SET AVATAR <http://url.of.your/avatar> and it will be display on the channel page (example for #discussions channel) and in our IRC web client.

If the stats pages for the channel are enabled, your avatar will also be used …

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Autolimit via services

After a few months of testing, we, zeolia, are proud to announce the use of the Anope’s module “autolimit” .

What does it ?

It allows chanowner to define a dynamic limit of users on the channel, based on the actual number, and the delay of check.

How ? …

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Newnet IRC: Chatting Since 1996

Do you love chatting with people from different backgrounds and interests? Do you enjoy using bots to spice up your conversations? Do you want to join a network that puts users first and respects their freedom? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then Newnet IRC network might …

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Web client setup at https://web.newnet.net

Hello!

We are excited to announce that our web client is now available for use. You can access it at https://web.newnet.net. The client is called “The Lounge” and we believe it is a strong, capable platform.

We would love to hear your feedback on this change and whether or not …

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IRC4Fun now allows TOR

IRC4Fun now allows TOR (with SASL Authentication)

12/27/2022:

IRC4Fun now allows TOR connections – please see https://irc4fun.net/r/tor for more information.

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IRC4Fun is an Internet Relay Chat network, founded in October of 2007. Our goal is to provide a quality, free, & fun chat service giving people all over the world a means for conversing with each other on friendly, secure and drama-free servers.