Y-chat crashes after connecting to snoonet
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bassgoonist · 2012-12-14 19:15

I can connect to the other 6 networks I usually use, but recently,
connecting to snoonet.org has caused my client to crash. Any ideas
what I'm doing wrong?

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aperson · 2012-12-14 21:09

Entirely unrelated (or is it?), but you should change up what build of
xchat you're using.  The fact that it's branded as 'Y-chat' tells me
that it's not anything recent.  The current build of
[hexchat](http://www.hexchat.org/) is what you'd want.  It's currently
maintained and is ahead of the official xchat.org version (as they
sorta stopped development).

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faghat · 2012-12-14 21:58

The main dev of Hexchat quit a few weeks back.
Also it's basically XChat-WDK with a built in theme feature. No recent
additions of note, to be honest.

BTW OP I suggest deleting the \scrollback\ for your snoonet server
conf
(found somewhere around here C:\Users\YOUR-USER-
NAME\AppData\Roaming\X-Chat 2\scrollback - i think "X-Chat 2" might be
replaced with
"y-Chat" or so, though).

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aperson · 2012-12-14 22:00

Hexchat \*is\* xchat-wdk.  They changed names a long while ago.
https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat  has commits from seven days ago -
it is still developed.

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faghat · 2012-12-14 22:07

But why the name/logo change?

Also, yeah, but as I said, the main dev (who easily did 90%+ of the
work) quit recently. Though I do agree that OP should update his
client.

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aperson · 2012-12-14 22:10

tldr: Because xchat-wdk isn't as catchy as 'hexchat' and they started
supporting more platforms than just windows.  All this info and more
is on the front page and subsequent link on http://hexchat.org

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faghat · 2012-12-14 22:16

Ooooh. My bad. Sorry!

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bassgoonist · 2012-12-14 22:33

Ugh, the only reason I switched to y-chat after using official x-chat
for more than 8 years was x-chat has painfully terrible unicode
support. I hate changing my irc client :(

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aperson · 2012-12-14 22:34

ychat, xchat, and hexchat are all the same thing.  Just different
builds of the same client.  You literally use the same config files.

Edit:

Well, I shouldn't say the same thing, but they all share the same
base.  They're all different branches of the same tree.

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[deleted] · 2012-12-15 07:50

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bassgoonist · 2012-12-15 09:16

Yeah, it does seem to work. Just...makes me sad...I paid for
xchat...but alas