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# Irc <http://9front.org/extra/rc/> has wcirc and <http://9front.org/extra/src/> has irc7 and ircs there are probably newer versions of these in sources, or shithub, or other places <http://code.9front.org/hg/irc7/> A few TUI IRC clients like irssi and weechat can easily handle 100s of networks with 1000s of channels. Imagine for a moment 9 had an irc filesystem, similar to the existing ircfs projects [for inferno][1] and [for linux][2]. A general purpose tool can be run inside acme to keep track of any changes within a tree hierarchy. All recently written files can be highlighted inside acme, and the most recently updated file can be jumped to, and a tail of the last few lines displayed. This would be a general purpose replacement not just for irssi and weechat, but would be useful for monitoring any type of communications (email, xmpp, matrix) as well as system logs. [1]: https://github.com/Plan9-Archive/ircfs-limbo [2]: https://github.com/machinaut/ircfs