welcome to my tubelog.

alpha0

welcome to the first tubes alpha release. it's all new baby

what is a tubes

tubes is a new client for irc networks. you can use it to talk to people on irc.

how do I use it

navigate to https://tubes.chat in a modern web browser of your choosing. then click the "add network" button and type in a wss:// url. try connecting to wss://irc.ergo.chat/webirc and then joining the #tubes channel!

things to know

• tubes can only connect to networks over websockets. if you want to accept tubes into your life, you will need to set up a wss:// url on your network and advertise it somewhere.
• many browsers are fairly ruthless when it comes to keeping websocket connections alive, so you may find your connection has been severed while you were in a different tab. tubes will do its best to reconnect when this happens. this issue is particularly noticable in safari.
• tubes is very particular about what networks it will connect to. this is on purpose. due to the issues mentioned above, tubes is a very poor fit for traditional irc networks, due to the deluge of quit and join messages that come from the client being constantly disconnected and reconnecting. however, some networks will keep your nick alive for a period of time after your client has quit, meaning we can disconnect and reconnect from these networks with abandon and not piss anyone off. at this time, ergo is the only IRCd that supports this. if you are interested in making your IRCd tubes-compatible, please consider adding support for draft/persistence in your server.
• please expect a think layer of jank to encompass your experience, as is the nature of an alpha release. please report any and all issues and grievences you run into, no matter how minor.
• do not try and use tubes on a phone. if you try and use tubes on a phone and complain to me about how it doesn't work on a phone I will throw a large and funny brick at your person. we're working on it okay.
• some buttons don't do anything because I am yet to make them do anything.
• some operations fail silently under certain conditions because I am yet to handle them properly.

missing features

these features are planned for a later release:

• you cannot yet scroll to the top of a channel or direct message to load more messages.
• when you archive a connection, you can't unarchive it or delete it permanently.
• most moderation features are missing. if you operate a channel or network, you will probably want to use a different client in conjunction with tubes.
• many commands you would expect to be present are missing out of sheer laziness. there is also no help system for commands, so you must guess which commands do and do not exist.
  • there is also currently nowhere to type commands if you aren't in a channel or direct message

reporting issues

you may open an issue on our codeberg issue tracker, or send a message to #tubes on irc.ergo.chat.