Hi there! I know this is an old thread, but IMHO adding more information is still useful, since I have not chosen yet. On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:15:33 -0800, Axel Beckert wrote: > IIRC the main reason for me to finally switch to 3.x was the Twitter > and Identica support. I use none of the two, just XMPP :-) > Luca Capello wrote: >> I then started looking at using Irssi to directly connect to XMPP, >> mainly because I am already running an Irssi proxy (and lately I have >> more and more found myself connecting via SSH to the server instead of >> using the proxy via an IRC client). While this solution means that I >> will lose my willingness to be client-agnostic, it has at least two >> advantages: first, it does not require a new daemon and, second, it is >> integrates with Irssi at the command level (i.e. it uses "standard" IRC >> commands like /AWAY and so on and not "in-room" commands like >> BitlBee). > > While you are right with regards to "in-room commands", you picked the > wrong example. :-) /away works also affects all IM accounts to which > you are connected via Bitlbee. The only difference is that you just > have one type of being "away", not multiple as with most IM systems. Ah, thank you for the pointer... > From my experience you need those "in-room commands" only seldom. And > you can also send them by "/msg root" which is sometimes more > convenient, espeically in Jabber chat rooms. ...and the tip! >> I know that at least Axel uses BitlBee, > > For years now. And I'm quite happy with it. > > Also nice with Bitlbee is that the upstream author and the Debian > package maintainer are the same person (a DD btw.) and that there is > the very friendly #bitlbee IRC channel on OFTC. They both speak in favor of BitlBee, which actually has another advantage compared to irssi-xmpp: given that BitlBee is of type IRC (it appears in /NETWORK and /SERVER), it can then be used together with the Irssi proxy, while irssi-xmpp does not. But I still dislike the &bitlbee channel and I am still wondering if I really need to be always online on XMPP ;-) Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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