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Dev tools · March 6, 2013

An experiment - IRC channel from just a URL

This is related with a previous story I've seen today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5330020 I've been working on a similar concept but based on IRC. Once authenticated with your Twitter account you can join a room using the URL, the path represents a channel. As I said, it's based on IRC which means that you can also join the same room using an IRC client. The code is here: https://github.com/malditogeek/lalo

An experiment - IRC channel from just a URL launched on March 6, 2013 with 12 votes, #129 of 671 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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This tool creates IRC channels accessible through simple URLs. After authenticating with a Twitter account, users can join chat rooms where the URL path represents the channel name. Because it's based on IRC protocol, the same rooms can be accessed using traditional IRC clients, bridging web-based and IRC communication in one system. It's designed for developers who want flexible chat infrastructure.

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