Web Client
The freeq web client is a Slack-class chat application that runs in your browser at irc.freeq.at.
Features
- Bluesky login — OAuth sign-in, no passwords
- Signed messages — 🔒 badge on cryptographically signed messages
- E2EE DMs — End-to-end encrypted direct messages with safety numbers
- Threads & replies — Click reply to start a thread
- Reactions — Emoji reactions on any message
- Message editing & deletion — Edit with ↑, delete from context menu
- Media upload — Drag & drop, paste, or file picker. Images, video, audio, PDF.
- Camera capture — 📷 button on mobile for direct photo capture
- Inline media — Images, video, and audio play inline. Bluesky post and YouTube embeds.
- Link previews — Automatic OG metadata previews for shared links
- Channel discovery — Browse and search public channels
- Pinned messages — Pin important messages to the channel header
- Search — Full-text search across message history
- Quick switcher — ⌘K to jump to any channel
- Mentions & notifications — Desktop notifications on mention, badge counts
- Channel policies — Visual policy editor for channel access rules
- Verified badges — ✓ for authenticated users, 🔒 for signed messages
- Themes — Dark and light mode
- PWA — Installable as a standalone app
- Privacy controls — Toggle external media loading in Settings → Privacy
Keyboard shortcuts
| Shortcut |
Action |
| ⌘K |
Quick switcher |
| ⌘F |
Search messages |
| ⌘1–9 |
Switch channel |
| ↑ |
Edit last message |
| Tab |
Autocomplete nick |
| Esc |
Close panel / cancel |
Compose features
/ commands — Full IRC command palette@nick — Nick autocomplete- Markdown —
**bold**, *italic*, `code`, ```codeblock```
- Multi-line paste — Splits into separate messages
- Cross-post toggle — Share media to Bluesky simultaneously
