I’m learning how to use IRC at age 32.

https://halloy.chat/ and https://soju.im/ are very cool software, but the difficulty barrier of entry is surprisingly high?

To get the IRCv3 features like chat-history you need to selfhost soju and juggle the TLS termination with a reverse proxy.

I’m thinking if this was ever meant to be used by non technical folks.

@fizzo "juggle the TLS termination with a reverse proxy"? what do you mean by that?

soju was very easy to install for me.

@fizzo I wonder what issues you got,

but also, come join #postmarketos and friends on OFTC :D

@fun I wanted to run soju in a container as I do with everything I self host.
It was hard to figure out how to connect soju to my existing reverse proxy setup (traefik) and enable the additional IRC TLS endpoint on port 6697.

Also at some point I just forgot to use my brain as I did not open the 6697 port on the firewall, so I was getting “connection refused” 🙃

@fizzo Ah, I'm not very familiar with traefik, but it wasn't hard with nginx to do it (I also run soju in a container, albeit an incus/lxc container not a docker/podman)