Favorite client? reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brendan10211 · 2012-01-12 10:39 Mine's Xchat for linux. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- suburbanwolf · 2012-01-12 11:11 mIRC on Windows, xchat on Linux. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- luckypunk · 2012-01-12 11:49 xchat2 here for windows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- entactogen · 2012-01-12 11:50 irssi. ^_^ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2012-01-12 12:40 irssi or die. anything else is garbage. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- day_cq · 2012-01-12 12:40 telnet to read all convo including privmesg. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DRW_ · 2012-01-12 12:54 Textual is the best client I've ever used, but I use Xchat when I'm on Linux or Windows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nanowire · 2012-01-12 13:11 Another vote for irssi. I really like it and use it exclusively right now. I used to favor BitchX, but I haven't been able to use it in like a year since it doesn't seem to support 64bit NetBSD and development seems to have stopped. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2012-01-12 13:25 I still have trouble believing that, as a former mIRC user, I initially considered irssi's text/keyboard-only interface to be a limitation... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MachaHack · 2012-01-12 13:57 Desktop: Xchat. Android: Tied between Andchat and my own not yet released app. Need to fix a few crash bugs on my own app first though, so it's not quite ready yet. When it's finished, I'll probably prefer that. That said, I usually connect through irssi on a vps for persistent connections from whichever client and so messages go to both my phone and laptop. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- eggbean · 2012-01-12 13:57 mIRC, since 1995, and with NNSCRIPT, since 2005. I have to stick with mIRC 6.35 in order to use NNSCRIPT (dead project), but mIRC has not improved that much since, and NNSCRIPT makes it much better - especially the themes. I also use ZNC on a Rackspace cloud server as a bouncer, and irsii for SSH IRCing on the same server, which I primarily only use for logging and bots on the same bouncer sessions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- hyphen_ated · 2012-01-12 15:33 i run irssi on one machine in a screen session and then ssh into that machine whenever i want to use it... idle in all the channels! though i just realized yesterday that xchat is pretty nice. but right after i was done, i needed to disconnect, which i found annoying. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fastbiter · 2012-01-12 16:23 xchat-wdk on windows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rmas · 2012-01-12 17:18 You might be interested in [xchat-wdk](http://www.xchat-wdk.org/) for Windows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- omgnvq · 2012-01-12 18:03 I use [this build](http://www.silverex.org/news/) of xchat on windows. Is there any difference or? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2012-01-12 18:13 Emacs ERC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- antonhynkel · 2012-01-12 18:38 quassel http://quassel-irc.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TheSawg · 2012-01-12 18:40 http://www.xchat-wdk.org/home/comparison Official XChat vs XChat-WDK vs Silverex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Paradox · 2012-01-12 19:31 Bouncers let you use a GUI client while staying online all the time ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Paradox · 2012-01-12 19:32 [Linkinus](http://conceitedsoftware.com/products/linkinus). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SamT_ · 2012-01-12 20:10 I use ChatZilla with Xulrunner. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kazurik · 2012-01-12 20:34 Have you ever used tmux instead of screen? One of my friends uses it and he seems to love it. I was wondering how well irssi works with it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- aka_butters · 2012-01-12 21:22 irssi + gnu screen or tmux ftw ---------------------------------------------------------------------- suburbanwolf · 2012-01-12 21:37 Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rascalsprat · 2012-01-12 21:42 Nobody's said weechat yet?! I used to use irssi, but I got tired of installing plugins and tweaking themes to get the look and behavior I wanted -- it turned out that weechat had most of what I wanted out of the box. And while I like running my IRC client in tmux anyway, it just seemed silly that in order to display nicks, I had to have a separate terminal open. weechat has that built right in! <3 weechat. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- haywire · 2012-01-12 23:15 I used irssi but now I use Weechat. They were both awesome. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2012-01-13 00:04 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brendan10211 · 2012-01-13 02:26 Thanks for all the response! I'll have to check those out. Now, best mobile client? I use Colloquy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brendan10211 · 2012-01-13 02:28 Funny, when I use xchat for windows, I just "renew" my thirty day trial... :P ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brendan10211 · 2012-01-13 02:29 I could never figure that out for the iPod. Alas, I do not have a mac, so the iPod is all i have seen of Linkinus. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brendan10211 · 2012-01-13 02:29 Gotta try that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2012-01-13 03:13 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- go4it7arh · 2012-01-13 04:07 Check out [irssi-proxy](http://irssi.org/documentation/proxy). It's like a bouncer but built into irssi. I use it for when I'm on my phone in AndChat, for example. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominate10 · 2012-01-13 06:10 Any chance you can send me a link when it's released? I'd love to try it out ;) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- eggbean · 2012-01-13 17:40 I think tmux is a lot nicer than screen. It's much easier to customise, and you can split screen vertically as well as horizontally, and you can even use the mouse to resize them and to select screens on a taskbar at the bottom. It's also being actively developed. It's best to change the main key from C-b to C-a, like on screen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- funknut · 2012-01-13 17:42 You're a masochist. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nliadm · 2012-01-13 21:35 Word. ZNC was easy to set up and totally worth the time it took. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jenzebubble · 2012-01-15 08:21 I think that the version of mIRC that works with NNSCRIPT has a remote exploit. Might be worth checking out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- eggbean · 2012-01-15 08:26 Huh? Are you talking about the download from oldversion.com or somewhere like that? They are packed with malware, from what I have heard. Safe place for old versions is [mirc.net](http://mirc.net/mirc.php). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jenzebubble · 2012-01-15 11:06 http://pastebin.com/T22g5w13 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- eggbean · 2012-01-15 11:54 Well, the only think I connect mIRC to is the bouncer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- aesptux · 2012-01-15 16:58 xchat, but I see a lot of people us irssi, so I will give it a try. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- meebey · 2012-01-15 19:43 Smuxi of course, anything else is just deprecated or obsolete :-D http://www.smuxi.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- gislikarl · 2012-01-16 10:42 Pidgin is the only chat I use regardless of whether it's XMPP, IRC or something else :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ThunderWolf · 2012-01-17 02:23 NoNameScript for Windows using mIRC. Pretty nice one. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brendan10211 · 2012-01-17 12:09 Any chance for iOS? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MachaHack · 2012-01-17 12:09 None. Don't own a Mac. Also, to the best of my knowledge, iOS doesn't allow keeping long running connections in the background, so without writing a custom bouncer it'd lose messages or close when you go to a different app. Also, Colloquy exists already. It's pretty good. Most of the Android IRC apps have horrid UI and/or missing features. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MachaHack · 2012-01-17 12:09 Will do. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brendan10211 · 2012-01-17 12:10 Yeah, Pidgin is good. I just wish it integrated more with Ubuntu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brendan10211 · 2012-01-17 12:13 That's a good idea. I tried to "renew" my trial for Xchat, and it didn't work the first time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- gislikarl · 2012-01-17 14:52 True, replacing Pidgin with Empathy was a bad decision. The only good thing about Empathy are the chat themes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brendan10211 · 2012-01-17 16:15 I can't find any decent ones, either. :( ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brendan10211 · 2012-01-17 16:16 Sad that apple limits xcode to mac... I would like to code in xcode too, but I have windows and ubuntu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Katepillar · 2012-01-17 22:03 Irssi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brendan10211 · 2012-01-17 22:11 so many for irssi. tried it today, gonna start using it ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Katepillar · 2012-01-17 22:13 It's just simply the best ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brendan10211 · 2012-01-17 22:16 I agree completely. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lordlicorice · 2012-01-18 05:17 In my opinion you should handle split screening with an X window manager (xmonad!) rather than with something like screen or tmux. Just open two terminal windows, with screen running in each. It's extremely clunky to write window layouts that are adjustable the way you want, but I never have any need to resize anything. I just reserve virtual desktop 9 for irssi windows, and Flag+9 over to it when I want to check. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- eggbean · 2012-01-18 09:40 Yeah that's good, but I am accessing my Linux internet servers (Rackspace and Amazon EC2) through ssh, from both Windows and Linux desktops (and also from any computer on the internet through a web browser, using [shellinabox](http://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/)). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2012-01-19 09:01 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2012-01-19 09:10 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3ricG · 2012-01-19 16:26 I honestly don't understand what bouncers do/how they work. I thought they were used to hide your IP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3ricG · 2012-01-19 16:31 Have you ever tried [Irssi ConnectBot]( https://market.android.com/det ails?id=org.woltage.irssiconnectbot&hl=en)? I've never tried it, but I've heard it works better than AndChat ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3ricG · 2012-01-19 16:35 I'll have to check this out, I currently use Irssi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3ricG · 2012-01-19 16:41 I have a somewhat unrelated question. How much do you pay for EC2? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- eggbean · 2012-01-19 23:12 Nothing actually, at the moment. I'm still on the free tier, which gives you one Linux micro instance (single CPU, around 600MB RAM and 8GB remaining available storage). Just a few days ago they introduced free micro instances for Windows as well, so I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Core micro instance on EC2 as well. I'm currently trying to make a point-to-point VPN connection from it to one of the Linux machines, using OpenVPN, so it can route to my LAN and other cloud servers, as Windows is not supported by the wonderful [vCider](http://www.vcider.com/) software yet. It's free for a year for new accounts. I already had an AWS account when they introduced the free tier, so I made a new one to take advantage of it. I have a few months left. My EC2 Linux machine is so configured and used at the moment, that I will probably carry on with it when I have to pay. The price for the micro instance is around the same as for Rackspace, but you only get a single CPU (Rackspace has quad), but you get a lot more RAM. EC2 is a lot more difficult to use for beginners than Rackspace, and the support on Rackspace is much better (you have to pay extra on AWS, or just rely on the forums). ##AWS on Freenode is the best way to get help with EC2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2012-01-19 23:15 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3ricG · 2012-01-20 01:06 Ah, okay. The only thing I worried about was how much it might cost after running irc on it for days on end (since they charge per hour) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- go4it7arh · 2012-01-20 04:59 No, but I have used ConnectBot to connect to my server and attach to screen before I decided to use AndChat. I don't think a text based IRC client would be better to use on a smartphone than one with a real UI. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2012-01-20 18:17 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2012-01-20 18:17 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- upturn · 2012-01-21 08:54 There's [Colloquy](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/colloquy-irc- client/id302000478?mt=8) for iOS. It costs $2 and is a surprising well thought out app, with things like multiple channels and /msg conversations gracefully handled from one screen. It does disconnect after ten minutes if it is not the active application, which is a limitation on iOS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brendan10211 · 2012-01-21 17:31 got that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- upturn · 2012-01-21 21:17 Yeah, I didn't read far enough down in the thread... or notice that it's a few days old ;) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brendan10211 · 2012-01-22 14:20 That's alright. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2012-01-24 22:02 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brendan10211 · 2012-01-24 23:13 Tell me more. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2012-01-25 11:19 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brendan10211 · 2012-01-25 17:57 Cool. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- funknut · 2012-01-29 14:09 That can be one benefit. The main purpose is to maintain constant connections to multiple networks and channels, pushing the backlog to your IRC client. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2012-02-01 07:47 pirch lol. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DatThingDer · 2012-02-10 12:12 KVIrc. I urge anyone to take a look at it (by that I mean download and install it, not just look at the screenshots on their website which are old and ugly). Much better than mIRC in my opinion... and let's not even talk about xchat... Works on Linux/Windows/Mac OS (Not officially supported though.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brendan10211 · 2012-02-10 17:58 I know that it has a portable version. :D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Deadhookersandblow · 2012-02-11 21:24 irssi when im on linux (that is almost all the time) xchat for windows (when I'm playing games etc) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- computurd · 2012-02-11 21:48 irssi master race ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WarlockSyno · 2012-02-13 17:16 MetroIRC - A very sexy client. http://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?https://bitbucket.org/Aethec/ metroirc/downloads http://www.deviantart.com/download/175875453/MetroIRC___UI_Elements_by _clindhartsen.png ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rempred · 2012-02-16 02:14 KVIrc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brendan10211 · 2012-02-16 21:23 ME GUSTA gonna look at that ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LucioRossari · 2012-02-17 13:09 mIRC. hands down. I can't live without it! I try using mibbit, but once you've used mIRC for 3+ years. on my Android devices I Use AndroIRC, but the only servers I'm ever on are the oen I use for the [Star Wars RPG](http://www.swcombine.com) I play online, I've been on freenode before, and I went on the daniweb server before it was taken down. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- hongminhee · 2012-02-18 13:05 [LimeChat] on Mac [LimeChat]: http://limechat.net/mac/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wetai · 2012-02-21 23:02 Just mIRC w/ NNS (the themes - especially blue Schlicht - are great) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- eduardchil · 2012-03-09 20:11 weechat-curses ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2012-03-20 09:36 it takes all of 10 seconds to wget the scripts then mv them to ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack-is · 2012-04-18 18:34 I do this, plus a local bitlbee server on the VPS. I couldn't stand it any other way now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- zetrate · 2012-05-26 02:00 make sure you read the quickstart guide when trying weechat out for the first time. Lots of good tips in a small amount of space. The userguide is excellent as well. #weechat on freenode. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- zetrate · 2012-05-26 02:02 http://weechat.org