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==Discord==
 
There is an active and welcoming OS development server on Discord with hundredsthousands of members. TheYou servercan isalso notfind affiliatedthe withadministrators of this OSDev.orgwiki there.
 
Invite link: https://discord.gg/RnCtsqD
 
They also have a matrix channel: #osdev:matrix.org
 
==IRC==
{{OSDev.org disclaimer}}
 
There is a well-populated operatingOS systems developmentDevelopment IRC channel on FreenodeLibera (irc.libera.chat) at '''#osdev'''. Several regular contributors to the OSDev.org wiki and forums are usually present in the channel., and the channel has over twenty years of history from its previous iteration on Freenode - it even predates this wiki by several years!
 
* ChannelHistorical loglogs and channel statistics: http://osdev-logs.qzx.com
* Today's log: https://freenodelibera.logbotirclog.infowhitequark.org/osdev
 
===IRC client suggestions===
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Other clients:
* [https://tools.suckless.org/ii/ ii] is a file- and FIFO-based IRC client for POSIX systems in under 1000 lines of source code
* [https://irssi.org/ IRSSI] is a popular and powerful text-mode IRC client.
* [https://pidgin.im/ Pidgin] supports a vast [https://pidgin.im/plugins/?publisher=all&query=&type= range] of different chat services in one client
* [https://riot.im Riot] has Matrix and IRC in one package
* [https://tools.suckless.org/sic/ sic] is under 250 lines of C for POSIX systems
* [https://weechat.org/ WeeChat] is a somewhat popular rival to IRSSI, but contrary to its name, it has been known to use many times the memory and CPU of IRSSI
* [http://felloff.net/usr/cinap_lenrek/wircrc wircrc] is a multi-window IRC client in under 300 lines of Plan 9 shell script, which shows what can be done with operating system support
* [http://xchat.org/ xchat] a X11 based IRC chat client, somewhat user friendly and available in many Linux distributions.
 
See also Wikipedia's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_clients Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients].
==Discord==
 
Somewhat related: [https://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html Bitlbee] is an open-source gateway from IRC to many other chat services. It could be a shortcut to using these other services with your OS. It uses the same libpurple as Pidgin, but obviously cannot support images or video.
There is an active and welcoming OS development server on Discord with hundreds of members. The server is not affiliated with this OSDev.org.
 
Invite link: https://discord.gg/RnCtsqD
 
They also have a matrix channel: #osdev:matrix.org
 
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