A clean, fairly advanced, IRC client for Windows that ISN'T irssi,
mIRC, or xChat?
reddit / irc

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NervousEnergy · 2013-01-07 00:30

I've been using IRC regularly for near on four years now, but I've
just been using Chatzilla since I was used to it and liked how simple
the interface is.

However, now I'm in 20 concurrent channels, and so the channel/server
bar is getting awfully crowded. It's especially a pain having to hide
the server tabs whenever I reconnect. It's also gotten hellishly
laggy, since it piggybacks off Firefox which isn't exactly renowned
for its memory stability.

So basically what I'm looking for is a really clean-looking/minimalist
IRC client for Windows Seven, with the channel/server list on the
left/right, and has features like aggressive notify with stalk words,
auto-connect, and auto-identify etcetera.

I'm not a fan of irssi since I multitask a lot, never use keyboard
shortcuts, and hate the black on white. mIRC and xChat arn't too bad
looking.. but a bit too busy, not as minimalist as I'd like. Maybe
there are themes I could download...? Take a look at the layout of
Chatzilla for the kind of thing I'm after: simple standard menu
options with no silly cartoon icons for the options, and the grey
colour scheme *really* helps my bad eyesight, so is pretty high on my
priority list.

So yeah, quite specific. I hope someone can help!

Thanks.

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[deleted] · 2013-01-12 09:11

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[deleted] · 2013-02-06 15:01

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FlyinEye · 2013-02-15 05:13

I would try mirc and look for a script/scripts that do what you're
looking for. There's a ton out there already and if you have any
programming skills you can modify or write you're own. The layout is
also very customizable. I've been on irc since 94 and have tried a lot
of clients. Xchat is nice if you like scripting too. I really think
you best bet is modding one of them to get as close to what you want.
Plus mirc is still constantly updated and very well supported. Check
out http://www.hawkee.com/mirc/scripts/ or http://www.mircscripts.org/
and you'll see all the scripts there are already.

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[deleted] · 2013-02-15 20:43

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Torbob · 2013-02-18 09:50

Quassel IRC
Comes with a server-client structure but can both be run on windows or
the core on a server and have it work like a bouncer.

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jacobmiller · 2013-02-24 22:43

Try nettalk

http://www.ntalk.de/Nettalk/en/

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B1tN1nja · 2013-02-25 16:13

Xchat/hexchat has a lot of view options, you might just want to play
around with them to get it more "minimalist" looking.

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[deleted] · 2013-03-01 03:36

If Chatzilla has what you like, why not use it? It's a perfectly
usable IRC client.