**tubes** is a little irc client that goes in your web browser.

## interesting features

- can connect to irc
- can speak in the channels
- designed 
- supports at least one ircv3 feature
- theoretical bouncer integration
- uses a nice font
- worse than discord
- possibly better than matrix depending on your priorities

## give it a go
an EXTREMELY PRE ALPHA FUCKED UP NOT REALLY WORKING AT ALL !!!! build is available at [tubes dot pronounmail dot com](https://tubes.pronounmail.com). sometimes i update this when i remember it exists.

### every network that supports websockets

- **Ergo Testnet**: `wss://testnet.ergo.chat/webirc`
- **Libera.Chat**: `wss://web.libera.chat/webirc/websocket/`
- Some others I imagine

a plea to network administrators: please disable CORS on your webirc endpoints. i really really do not want to have to set up a proxy.

## build it

### prerequisite(s)

- own a computer
- install node.js, whatever version is in your package manager will probably work okay.

### doing the thing

clone the repository somewhere and `cd` into it. then just

```bash
npm install
npm run build
# move dist/ somewhere accessible xoxo
```

## say hello

it's all going down in [#tubes](ircs://irc.libera.chat/#tubes) on libera.chat

### contributing

submit pull requests to our lovely [codeberg page][codeberg]. lots of things to
do can be found on the [issue tracker][issues]. there's not much in the way of
documentation at the moment, so if you get stuck and/or confused please do ping
me!

> [!NOTE]\
> This is a purely ideological project. Any changes that appear technically
> motivated will be rejected.

[codeberg]: https://codeberg.org/smethwick/tubes
[issues]: https://codeberg.org/smethwick/tubes/issues

## licence

everything is AGPL. explodes you instantly.