Is mIRC still a thing? Do people still use it? Gosh I feel old.
That’s the first one I thought of as well. And your third point, too… Haha
I remember back in day, my friends would learn how to script only to modify their mIRC and have some sick startup animations and music.
Then MSN Messenger showed up.
I downloaded it not that long ago and worked great!
I was gonna say this is my favorite, with IRCn on top. It’s been a while since I connected. Is EFNet still around?
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Because it’s healthy.
Weechat. Terminal based, flexible scripting system using a handful of languages, still actively developed, and I can make it work the way I want it to work.
Seconded. Weechat and Gomuks for matrix chat.
Sounds too much like WeChat
If you’re going to not use software because you don’t like a program with a similar name, I really don’t know what to tell you… 🤷♂️
Would you run a distro called Windoze?
I don’t care what it’s called as long as it’s a decent distro and does what I need it to do.
irssi. No explanation necessary
senpai
I run irssi on a Raspberry Pi. It has everything I need.
Do I have to self host it to make it work or can I just install it on my machine
You can install it on any machine. It’s just a terminal IRC client. I run it on a small home server with
screenso that it’s always on.
I use Hexchat. It’s a fine GUI a client, simple and reliable. I use a ZNC bouncer so no need to keep a CLI client running 24/7.
Just to let you know, Hexchat is no longer maintained, unless someone has forked it. Might be worth looking into alternatives.
Has IRC been getting many new features recently? It kind of feels like the sort of thing where software can become “finished”.
I mean yeah, Hexchat does work pretty well and is kind of finished. But it’s possible there are existing security vulnerabilities or new ones to be discovered in the future.
IRCv3 has extended IRC quite a bit over the past decade, fixing a lot of minor pain points if clients support the fixed versions of the protocol.
Aw drat. That sucks. Thanks for pointing that out
Same. Hexchat + znc = peak of software development
I use Quassel hosted on my server.
Irssi. It’s extensible and stable, been using it for years.
Quassel, self-hosted.
hexchat, also Konversation
Convos - self hosted web based client written in Perl of all things, because it’s small, simple, does exactly what I want and no more, and avoids my having to faff with client + bouncer which was getting old 10 years ago and feels positively withering now.
Haven’t tried halloy, but it sounds cool, I wish rust build with shared libs in mind, instead of everything link statically, but it sounds interesting, I’ll see how it is compared to srain which is my current choice…
Quassel nowadays, because I’m on my phone more often than my laptop. Back when I say at a keyboard more, it was irssi, no contest
