# Strategies for bridging kakoune IRC to Discourse?

**URL:** <https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/strategies-for-bridging-kakoune-irc-to-discourse/2901>\
**Category:** Resources\
**Tags:** irc\
**Created:** [May 14, 2026, 9:51pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/strategies-for-bridging-kakoune-irc-to-discourse/2901 "2026-05-14T21:51:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![blaisep](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/blaisep/32/1610_2.png) [@blaisep](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/blaisep)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 9:51pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/strategies-for-bridging-kakoune-irc-to-discourse/2901/1 "2026-05-14T21:51:40Z")

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I struggle with IRC for a number of reasons (eg. different client devices, lack of always-on client, intermittent interest) so I wonder if there is a strategy (or proposal) for mirroring or reflecting some of the IRC goodness over to here?  
As someone with sporadic need to interact with the community, I appreciate the asynch and archival benefits of Discourse.

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**Author:** ![Screwtapello](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/screwtapello/32/12_2.png) [@Screwtapello](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/Screwtapello)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 1:27am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/strategies-for-bridging-kakoune-irc-to-discourse/2901/2 "2026-05-15T01:27:55Z")

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Bridging real-time-chat to a forum like Discourse tends not to work very well - chat is a lot noisier, and people tend to talk in ways that are not very archive friendly (and in fact, perhaps _shouldn’t_ be archived).

That said, there’s other branches of the Kakouniverse that might fit you better - there’s a Discord server that is quite lively, and a Matrix chatroom that I hang out in to answer questions when I can. Both of those can handle different client devices, and have server-side state so you don’t need an always-on client to participate.

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**Author:** ![blaisep](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/blaisep/32/1610_2.png) [@blaisep](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/blaisep)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2026, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/strategies-for-bridging-kakoune-irc-to-discourse/2901/3 "2026-05-19T14:15:21Z")

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Oh, I see what you mean.  
Actually, I respect the difference between synchronous chat and long form, so I suppose the Bridge is not such a good idea.