Glowing Bear
A web frontend for WeeChat.
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Still maintained? Yes: 2 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 0.9.0 (Jul 2020).
At a glance
Glowing Bear quick facts
- Health score
- 24/100 STALE
- Stars
- 981
- Last commit
- 3 months ago (Aug 2026)
- Latest release
- 0.9.0, Jul 2020
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Glowing Bear is a web frontend for the WeeChat IRC client and strives to be a modern interface. It relies on WeeChat to do all the heavy lifting and then provides some nice features on top of that, like embedding images, videos, and other content. The best part, however, is that you can use it from any modern internet device -- whether it's a computer, tablet, or smart phone -- and all your stuff is there, wherever you are."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Glowing Bear scores 24/100, #8 of 11 in Communication - IRC: 2 commits in the last 90 days earn 2.3 of 35 points, the latest release (0.9.0, 6.3 years ago) earns 0.0 of 25, 981 stars add 12.0 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 32.7 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 2.3 / 35
2 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
0.9.0 released 6.3 years ago
- Stars 12.0 / 20
981 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 2
- Last 90 days
- 19
- Last 12 months
- 3 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #8 of 11 tools in Communication - IRC by health , between ngircd (#7) and Kiwi IRC (#9) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Nodejs |
| Latest release | 0.9.0 · 6.3 years ago |
| Stars | 981 |
| Open issues | 139 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | glowing-bear/glowing-bear ↗ |
Glowing Bear vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Glowing Bear (Communication - IRC), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weechat | 94 | 3.4k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| InspIRCd | 93 | 1.4k | GPL-2.0 | 6 days ago |
| Ergo | 86 | 3.4k | MIT | 8 days ago |
| The Lounge | 85 | 6.4k | MIT | yesterday |
| ZNC | 58 | 2.1k | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| Glowing Bear (this tool) | 24 | 981 | GPL-3.0 | 3 months ago |
Glowing Bear: common questions
Is Glowing Bear still maintained?
Glowing Bear had 2 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 3 months ago; the latest tagged release, 0.9.0, is from 6.3 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.