59 responses

1. Can u implement some type of notification for PM’s? LED preferred.

   TheOtherGuy – January 2nd, 2009

2. Sure, Im thinking of using either the notification window, the LED or a sound msg.

   Laurence Muller – January 2nd, 2009

3. Thanks for the update to firc! I was finally able to log into a channel with wifi. A couple questions: 1) Should this work when not on wifi? When I try to connect to a server via the cellular net, in the server status window I see “ ERROR: Closing Link: 0.0.0.0 (ping timeout: 38 seconds)” and I can’t connect to any channels. 2) The only channel I use is secured for betatesters with a password. With firc I cannot connect by specifying a channel in the connect window. I have only been able to connect by typing this in the server status window: “/join “. Is there any chance you could add password support in firc’s connect window? Thanks! Paul

   Paul – January 3rd, 2009

4. Hi Paul,

   1. I’m testing this mainly with 3G on… so yes it works without wifi.
   2. Password support is available in the v0.2.x series. Just type “/join channelname password”

   Laurence Muller – January 3rd, 2009

5. Hello, Really impressed with this client especially with all the new version two extras. I was wondering if there are any plans to make fIRC support multiple server and SSL connections? Thanks Peepo

   Peepo – January 5th, 2009

6. unable to see server window or join channel? firc seems to run ok. I get an ongoing notification the service is running (v0.2.4) however when I hit connect in the connection settings I get nothing past (firc: connecting to server), is it possible to get a server window? if I try to join a channel I get a force close (The application fIRC chat (proces com.falcon4ever.fIRC) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again). Any thoughts? Things worked before 0.2.x

   Tim – January 5th, 2009

7. It shows this everytime I log in on the Server status: -NickServ- this nickname is registered . Please choose a different nickname, or identify via /msg NickServ identify . But yet I am able to join the android channel. Do I need to change my Nickname?(Please say no)

   Dorian – January 6th, 2009

8. Hi, I’m glad to see there’s finally an irc client coming out on Android. Thanks for your work! I’m wondering if you’re planning on going open source with this project, this is typically the kind of project I’d love to contribute to!

   Remy – January 6th, 2009

9. Hey paul! First off - thanks for building this app. Slowly my g1 is replacing my pc. :) I was wondering if you were going to add /kick command support. Thanks! L

   lance – January 7th, 2009

10. Auto-reconnect would be sweet.

    Ryan – January 13th, 2009

11. Great to see an Android IRC client. :) Where can I download the source for this? I’d like to work on improving it…

    Rory – January 14th, 2009

12. It would be great if more modes could be implemented, like /topic, /mode #chanel add host ect

    luismicro – January 15th, 2009

13. @Remy/Rory: The application is free but not open source. There are no plans to make it open source any time soon. @Lance/Luismicro: I’ll ofcourse try to support those commands as soon as possible :)

    Laurence Muller – January 15th, 2009

14. Love the program it has come a long way since the first iteration. A few things I’d love to see: -reconnect on disconnect 5s delay between attempts. -Log save to sd card -PM notify. Thanks for the great woerk.

    KoBach – January 15th, 2009

15. Sucks that this isn’t open source. Really needs improving and that would happen a lot faster with more developers. Oh well, I’m sure I’ll find a good open source one and jump on that bandwagon

    ecvej – January 16th, 2009

16. Second the request for open sourcing it – really, everyone benefits it its opened up. Any particular reason for keeping it locked up, Lawrence? It’s good stuff – but with a community behind it, it could be a lot better, and if you leave it closed, I guaruntee that in a few months an OSS project will come along and eat your lunch. Whereas as an open source, it will continue to grow, and you can probably even pimp for donations with some success if you’re thinking about filthy lucre. Bugs (0.2.5): It worked pretty well when I first installed it, but after a day or two, it started erroring out. AtM, I have it up over wifi, but yeah, there are definately stability issues (I do live in NYC, so it needs to reconnect automatically after I go underground for an hour or so. Annoyances: I need to be able to hotkey to a channel – wow is going “goto firc, click on channel tab, click on the only channel I use” repetitive. No, please. At the very least, entering firc should take you back to where you left. Log is cleared on disconnects. Say what? if I’m in my.irc.org in #mychan, and I get disconnected and reconnect, I should damned well see what was said in #mychan before I was kicked off. PM notifications. channel notifications (even if they’re quiet – “# new messages in #mychan” in the status bar would be ideal. Why would I stay in a channel if I didn’t want to see new messages? This is all stuff whose lack I have found personally irritating. Naturally, obvious missing stuff I haven’t found cramping my style woudlbe supporting basic operator commands, DCC file transfer and chat, multi-server support, /ignore, and, of course, scripting.

    mneme – January 19th, 2009

17. @Mneme: I started fIRC as a personal project just to learn Java/Android (for that same reason fIRC sometimes locks up I guess due to nullpointer exceptions). I’m more a C++ programmer than Java. I’m not against open source projects in general (for example, I even got open source projects like Dolphin, nJoy and PCSX2). However I dont think that everything should be open source. Its not like when I make fIRC open source, the development speed is doubled. Another reason not to open source is that some people like to just add a minor thing and then claim it as their own which I really dislike (I’ve seen it before with our open source projects). Again, fIRC is just my personal project that I work on in my spare time and it will stay free. About the bug, probably reconnecting gives some issues. I added a notification to inform the user that a connection was lost. But I’ll add an option to auto reconnect. “Resume where you left” -> thats probably a view issue, gotta check that. “Log is cleared on disconnect” -> Its not cleared on disconnect, the status view is just ‘hidden’ for now on disconnect afaik. It does clear on connect. This will change in the next version that will also be supporting logging all messages to the memorycard. “PM/Chan notification” -> On my todo. “Missing operator commands” -> Still gotta add that. I’m also planning to add an option for advanced irc users (to send raw irc messages). That way those users can already use special commands even if I didnt implemented them properly yet. DCC file transfer is already working in my private build (60 kb/s over 3G).

    Laurence Muller – January 19th, 2009

18. Great program, and finally a proper IRC client for the android platform. Question, though: any chance including a close button on the main screen so it doesn’t keep running in the background when I’m done? I’d like to get some of that memory back. ^-^

    Anthony Gaglianese – January 20th, 2009

19. Hi, great app. Latest version connects to my favorite network (blitzed). A few issues to report:

    1. Cannot connect to my BNC, since I need to send a password. Need to implement the ‘/quote’ command (or ideally add an option to input a server password in connect screen). When I connect it asks me to type ‘/QUOTE PASS yourPassHere’, but you seem to not have /quote added yet
    2. Often crashes on disconnect. Or maybe it crashes and then disconnects? Many times I’ll find myself clicking on fIRC from the notification bar, then I’ll get the standard ‘Force Close’ dialog, and after I click it, I’m in fIRC but disconnect.
    3. After disconnecting, no way to get rid of notification/status icon. If I get disconnected from the server, the icon stays in my notification tray, and there’s no way to get it out. I cannot click ‘disconnect’ inside fIRC since I’m already disconnected. Usually this happens right after #2 above happens.
    4. An auto-reconnect feature would be nice, since cell networks can cause the occasional disconnect. Maybe have a limit on it, like don’t reconnect more than once per minute or five times per 10 minutes or something
    5. A suggestion, be able to start a /msg by clicking on a user in the userlist. This would require a real scrollable user list, not just a popup with all the names that fades away after three seconds. I’d also suggest using some type of software to manage feature requests & bug reports, like what they have on google code (the ‘Issues’ tab). I think it would make your life much easier. Keep up the good work!

    David R – January 22nd, 2009

20. Oh, one more thing, some weirdness with the ‘back’ hardware button. Usually if I’m inside a channel, repeatedly pressing back will take me from: channel -> channel list -> main fIRC screen -> in channel again -> channel list again -> main fIRC screen again -> return to previous app opened before fIRC If you could eliminate the extra steps that would be nice, since a lot of times I’ll be reading in my browser, pop into fIRC, and then be annoyed at having to press back 7 times to get back to the browser

    David R – January 22nd, 2009

21. Whenever I try to connect to a server, it says “not enough parameters” every time, no matter which server. If it were open source, I’d fix this. Obviously, open sourcing things doesn’t always make it progress faster, but it can’t make it any slower if you do it right. It’s not like you’d lose the ability to make changes whenever you had the time. Worst case, you could just hand out the source and not even manage it as a project or just et someone else manage so long as you got commit access. Sure, some folks might make one change and call it a different product, but how does that hurt you? As it is, every one of us with an issue will have to rewrite the whole application just to get a working version or we’ll have to bug the crap out of you and take up your time fixing bugs you’re not having and adding features you don’t need. Unless you’ve got government secrets in your code, I just don’t see the conflict. Anyway, you’re only able to write the app because of open source code. Can’t hurt to give back.

    Seth – January 23rd, 2009

22. I am unable 2 get into the chat at all. A black screen comes up when I try 2 initiate the chat. Is ne 1 else havin this problem…Hit me up mrpiff82@gmail.com

    Mrpiff – January 26th, 2009

23. For some odd reason it stopped working for me. Like the chatrooms don’t show up n e more. And I really like this app. If u can back 2 me in email that would be great..

    JUAN – January 27th, 2009

24. Seems like there are some DNS issues. I’ve checked the issue with another Tmo USA user and it seems that its failing to lookup chat.freenode.net (So either the DNS server is broken or someone is blocking the lookup on purpose). I’ve uploaded a new version (fIRC chat v0.2.7) with a different IP address.

    Laurence Muller – January 28th, 2009

25. Awesome client man. One suggestion, you should add an option to keep the screen on when using it.

    Acidulous – January 28th, 2009

26. Has anyone had luck with connecting to irc.coldfront.net? All I get when connecting is “ Not enough parameters” then “ ERROR :Closing Link: ping timeout”

    Quantum – February 14th, 2009

27. Awesome app, is there a plan to put in support for running lines on connection? Would be sweet to be able to automatically AUTH with Q on quakenet on login, that and some sort of notification for PMs and when someone in the channel says your nick would tottally replace the need for a pc based client.

    Gane – February 27th, 2009

28. Hi, Very nice application. Please add an extra field to remember the nickserv password and issue an automatic “/msg nickserv identify password” after connecting to the channel. That would be great. Many thanks for a great app. Clem.

    Clem – March 2nd, 2009

29. It would be awesome if you made fIRC open source. It needs to be able to be configured to join multiple channels too.

    ivantis – March 13th, 2009

30. Is is open source or not? The comments here say it isn’t, but the code.google.com page says it is (software license is GPL).

    scott – March 24th, 2009

31. @scott I’m currently only using http://code.google.com/p/firc-chat/ as a bug/feature request tracker. The source code is not public for now. @ivantis: http://code.google.com/p/firc-chat/issues/detail?id=2

    Laurence Muller – March 24th, 2009

32. Excellent work, any chance you could add support for server passwords?

    James – March 28th, 2009

33. Good work, could you add support for server passwords?

    James – March 28th, 2009

34. Can you please support text encoding settings?

    Romulus – April 1st, 2009

35. Trying to connect to irc.rizon.net but it always tells me “not enough parameters”. What can i do?

    hangman – April 3rd, 2009

36. If you plan to release a newer version, would it be possible to put in an option in which you can have like bookmarks for your favorite irc server’s, so that way you dont have to remember every server off of the top of your head. Becasue i use 2 diffrent servers and it is a pain to have to log out, type in the new server then log in and if i want to go back to the previous server i have to do it all over again. I would be very helpful if firc could remember servers that you use.

    Hyphae – April 14th, 2009

37. I may be doing something stupid but don’t really see how. I installed firc from the market and it reliably gives me the stopped unexpectedly message. I do not see myself logged in to the channel I am trying to connect to. I was hoping to follow the Summer of Code dupe resolution on my G1 in case I had to deal with a dupe student. Unfortunately don’t think it is going to work for me in time. :( Any ideas or hints. Trying for chat.freenode.net.

    Joel Sherrill – April 15th, 2009

38. Joel: Try downloading the log collector and run it after firc stopped working. It should create an email with a reason why firc stopped working. You can email it to the address found on the about page. Hmm if you’re American (Tmo), don’t use chat.freenode.net it doesn’t seem to work properly (just hardcode a freenode server IP).

    Laurence Muller – April 15th, 2009

39. Yes. T-Mobile and the IP address trick worked. I pinged chat.freenode.net, grabbed the IP and it connected first time. I even waved at myself from my XChat on my laptop. Thank you very much. Now my wife has another reason to call me nerdy! Thanks for the cool program.

    Joel Sherrill – April 15th, 2009

40. I once had this work, but now (since I had to reinstall after rooting my G1), I get nothing but a varied list of failures.. I usually see “not enough parameters” in the server trace followed by a disconnect. Sometimes it looks for a while as though it might have succeeded but the ier list is 0 users and the channel screen stays blank. someeimes it say ssomething liek “not registered” I just type in irc.efnet.org as the server which should return dozens of IP addresses. I have tried just typing in one IP address from teh list but I get hit by the “not enough parameters” problem. it’d be nice if the format for “default channel with password” were shown as an example (what is it?) name[space]password? I’ve seen it run once. It’s so frustratingly close.

    Julian Elischer – August 2nd, 2009

41. Hi. I just want to ask you to add operator commands, for some users they are extremely important. At least the most basic ones, /kick, /mode and /topic. And by the way, firc is my most used app on my phone.

    Porost – August 25th, 2009

42. Please add the /quote option for BNC users, this otherwise great app is now useless for me. :(

    jasper – September 25th, 2009

43. @Laurence Muller “DCC file transfer is already working in my private build (60 kb/s over 3G).” Should I take this to mean you’re going to add this feature into the public version of the app eventually? That would really bring me over into using your client!

    l3reak – December 17th, 2009

44. @l3reak Well its a planned feature so yes, it will be in the next major release.

    Laurence Muller – December 18th, 2009

45. Fantastic! That’s all I’ll need for a 5 star rating for fIRC.

    l3reak – December 19th, 2009

46. Hi! I like fIRC but can you please make it support ISO-8859-1 too?

    Christian – April 11th, 2010

47. I’ll do my best, for now I still need to do some rewriting for the next version. If you want to make sure I don’t forget your suggestion, please post it on: http://code.google.com/p/firc-chat/issues/list . That would make it easier to keep track of feature requests :)

    Laurence Muller – April 21st, 2010

48. Is fIRC still supported? There has been no update for almost two years, last update appeared in Aug 2009 _

    Chris – May 16th, 2011

49. It’s true that it has been a while since the last update. However, I’m currently rewriting fIRC 3 from scratch and hope to send out a beta soon :).

    Laurence Muller – May 16th, 2011

50. hello when the version with dcc send will be public please

    daniel – March 3rd, 2012

51. Crap, can’t even connect to undernet. One of the biggest most common networks. Can’t add your own servers, this is useless to me me, and any other avid irc user.

    Harley – May 24th, 2012

52. You should be able to add your own servers, just add a new profile. I’ll have to check why it won’t connect to undernet though.

    Laurence Muller – June 20th, 2012

53. Is this DCC really working? I’m trying to download a file using command: “/msg(bot name)xdcc send #(number)” but it says: “unimplemented: :irc.rizon.no 421 mynick msg :unknown command”. I’m using the same command on my IRC client on computer and everything works fine. And I don’t know why it says “irc.rizon.no” because I use “irc.rizon.net”.

    sokolb – July 15th, 2012

54. DCC receive from other clients should work, not sure if xdcc uses a different protocol though.

    Laurence Muller – July 20th, 2012

55. Why it is possible to choice only freenode efnet and dalnet? It is possible by chance to connect to other network/servers and how we are suposed to do?

    mircaddicted – August 10th, 2012

56. It has only been tested for those 3 networks, however, if you skip the server wizard and just fill out your server settings at “server settings” you can connect to any server you want.

    Laurence Muller – August 10th, 2012

57. Thanks!! It worked very well….I have another question: i tried to use the command /msg “botname” xdcc send # but this seems notworking. I received the answer unimplemented……unknown command. Are you sure that your app suports this command? And in case what I have to do to take it effective?

    mircaddicted – August 11th, 2012

58. The current version of firc only supports DCC receive. Other DCC related commands (chat, send, xdcc etc) are not supported for now.

    Laurence Muller – August 11th, 2012

59. Such a pity xdcc isn’t supported. That would be a unique feature in the playstore scenery Hope you are still working on this

    one – March 2nd, 2013