evrd keeps your IRC connections alive while you're away, saves everything you miss, and lets HexChat, irssi, WeeChat and the built-in web client attach and detach whenever you like. All of them share one upstream connection.
When you attach, you get the welcome burst, your channels with their topics, the backlog with original timestamps, and then live traffic.
evrd keeps one permanent connection to each network, stays in your channels and counts what's waiting for you. This is the same view as the web app's overview.
Select a network to show only its channels.
Nothing here: that network has no channels matching this filter. Choose “All” or select the network again.
evrd exports OpenTelemetry metrics (lines per network, lag, disconnects and attached clients) and draws traffic and link history back from VictoriaMetrics. Here's a day where hackint timed out at 03:12 and evrd reconnected on its own.
Run a single node with a file on disk, or a cluster behind a load balancer that serves a whole community. Either way, the per-network settings use the names ZNC users already know.
Messages, joins, parts, quits, kicks, nick changes, topics and modes are saved, and replayed to every client with server-time. Channel events come from *buffextras as plain text, so they never confuse your client's nick list. Playback can be limited to what arrived since you were last attached.
Attach with a server password user/network:pass. Native clients get the welcome burst, names, topics, backlog and a full-fidelity live feed.
Svelte web app with unread counts, mentions, members, topics and slash commands (/join, /msg, /me, /quote and more), kept in sync with your other clients.
/msg *status help to add networks, jump between them, play back a buffer or change settings. ZNC's command names work too.
Run any number of nodes against the same Postgres and ScyllaDB. If a node dies, its users move to the others in about 20 seconds.
Local passwords, OpenID Connect (Logto or any OIDC provider), or both. Per-client IRC passwords can be revoked one at a time.
Network passwords are encrypted with AES-256-GCM under a key that lives outside the database, and keys can be rotated. Account passwords are bcrypt hashes.
Exports OpenTelemetry metrics over OTLP, covering lines, lag, disconnects and clients, and draws the dashboard traffic chart from VictoriaMetrics.
Roles, per-user limits, suspension, bind hosts and per-user IPv6 addresses. Admins change limits, sign-in, SSO, bind hosts and metrics settings from the web app.
Day-to-day network management works from *status too, so a terminal client is enough for everyday use. Coming from ZNC? AddTrustedServerFingerprint and friends still work.
/msg *status addnetwork libera irc.libera.chat +6697 jamesat <*status> Added libera (irc.libera.chat:+6697, nick jamesat). connect libera to bring it online, then jump libera. /msg *status networks <*status> * libera connected as jamesat irc.libera.chat:+6697 · 4 channels <*status> oftc connected as jamesat irc.oftc.net:+6697 · 2 channels <*status> hackint reconnecting as jamesat irc.hackint.org:+6697 · 1 channel <*status> 3 networks. * = this client. jump <network> to switch. /msg *status jump oftc <*status> Jumped from libera to oftc. /msg *status playback #debian 100 <*status> Replayed 100 line(s) of #debian.
listen ircs://:6697
api :8098
db sqlite:/var/lib/evrd/evrd.db
history pebble:/var/lib/evrd/history
public_url https://bnc.example.org
irc_host bnc.example.org
https_listen :443
web_root /var/lib/evrd/web
tls acme # Let's Encrypt, renewed by evrd
secret_key_file /etc/evrd/secret.key
The config is a few readable directives. Start with SQLite and an embedded Pebble store on one machine, then move to Postgres and ScyllaDB when you outgrow it. evrctl history copy moves your history across.
Write a short config, start the containers, create an admin account, add a network. A few minutes from now your nick is online for good.