Irssi: IRC client in a Docker image (hub.docker.com)

This seems absurd. Just apt install irssi. Why Docker for such a simple self contained tiny app?

I remember using this to collaborate with docker maintainers about 10 years ago now. Good old days.

Better would be a docker container for an IRC server. Something using a modern approach where you could have link attachments, replies for message threads etc. An IRC slack alternative.

Is it possible to run multiple instances of this, so I could join an irc server that I also spin up in another docker instance and then have a rousing conversation with myself???

I use thelounge, it's pretty amazing except it hogs up a lot of disk space with the logs. I ve also been really sad that you can't update it without restarting the process which means I lose everything I am connected to (which on IRc sometimes isnt ideal)

used irssi for many years, never needed a docker. *shrug

I find part of the fun of dockerising small apps is in trying to get the image as small as possible with as few files in it as I can. This one looks like it still contains a lot of stuff that's not needed.

For example, my exim image https://hub.docker.com/r/grepular/exim4 is built like this: https://gitlab.com/grepular/docker-exim4/-/blob/main/Dockerf... - The final image only contains the necessary executables, shared lib files, CA certs, timezone files, a few other bits and nothing else.

Not that irssi releases all that often, but one benefit being glossed over is you could docker run a newer version than your distro has available in their package repository.

What makes irssi a better choice than weechat?

So... you made it worse?

A lot of overhead for something so small.