InspIRCd alternatives and similar software solutions

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The Lounge

8.0 6.0 L4 InspIRCd VS The Lounge

💬 ‎ Modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client
Shout

7.6 0.0 L4 InspIRCd VS Shout

DISCONTINUED. Deprecated. See fork @ https://github.com/thelounge

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InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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Weechat

7.0 9.7 L1 InspIRCd VS Weechat

The extensible chat client.
Oragono

6.7 8.6 InspIRCd VS Oragono

A modern IRC server (daemon/ircd) written in Go.
ZNC

6.5 8.5 L1 InspIRCd VS ZNC

Official repository for the ZNC IRC bouncer
Convos

5.5 0.0 L4 InspIRCd VS Convos

DISCONTINUED. Convos :busts_in_silhouette: is the simplest way to use IRC in your browser [Moved to: https://github.com/convos-chat/convos]
Kiwi IRC

5.3 7.0 InspIRCd VS Kiwi IRC

🥝 Next generation of the Kiwi IRC web client
Quassel IRC

5.2 3.8 L1 InspIRCd VS Quassel IRC

Quassel IRC: Chat comfortably. Everywhere.
Glowing Bear

5.2 5.7 InspIRCd VS Glowing Bear

A web client for WeeChat
IRCAnywhere

4.9 0.0 L4 InspIRCd VS IRCAnywhere

DISCONTINUED. IRCAnywhere web based multi-user IRC bouncer built for teams
Dispatch

4.2 0.0 InspIRCd VS Dispatch

Web-based IRC client in Go.
ngircd

4.0 8.3 InspIRCd VS ngircd

Free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server
Robust IRC

2.4 4.3 InspIRCd VS Robust IRC

RobustIRC - an IRC network without netsplits, implemented in Go using the Raft consensus algorithm
Tiny Tiny IRC

- InspIRCd VS Tiny Tiny IRC

An open source AJAX-powered chat platform with support for IRC

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About

InspIRCd is a modular C++ Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server for UNIX-like and Windows systems.

Supported Platforms

InspIRCd is supported on the following platforms:

Most recent BSD variants using the Clang or GCC compilers and the GNU toolchains (Make, etc).
Most recent Linux distributions using the Clang or GCC compilers and the GNU toolchain.
The most recent three major releases of macOS using the AppleClang, Clang, or GCC (not LLVM-GCC) compilers and the GNU toolchains.
Windows 7 or newer using the MSVC 14 (Visual Studio 2015) compiler and CMake 3.8 or newer.

Other platforms and toolchains may also work but are not officially supported by the InspIRCd team. Generally speaking if you are using a reasonably modern UNIX-like system you should be able to build InspIRCd on it. If you can not and you wish to submit a patch we are happy to accept it as long as it is not extremely large.

If you encounter any bugs then please file an issue.

Installation

Most InspIRCd users running a UNIX-like system build from source. A guide about how to do this is available on the InspIRCd docs site.

Building from source on Windows is generally not recommended but a guide is available if you wish to do this.

If you are running on CentOS 7, Debian 11/12, Rocky Linux 8/9, Ubuntu 18.04/20.04/22.04, or Windows 8+ binary packages are available from the downloads page.

A Docker image is also available. See the inspircd-docker repository for more information.

Some distributions ship an InspIRCd package in their package managers. We generally do not recommend the use of such packages as in the past distributions have made broken modifications to InspIRCd and not kept their packages up to date with essential security updates.