Is Textual pretty much the best/most capable IRC client for OS X?
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randomataxia · 2016-03-22 09:54

It is the best GUI IRC client for Mac OS X, yes.  I have tried many
clients on Mac OS X, and Textual beats them all, hands down.  If you
don't mind using a command line, you can also check out WeeChat and
IRSSI.

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tobsn · 2016-03-22 10:09

there was linkinus but it's gone now

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svn · 2016-03-22 15:36

It's pretty good, but they removed the ability to compile it by
yourself easily despite it being open source. Anybody knows of a good
way of doing so? Because of it I'm having to run an old version.

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mrtherapist · 2016-03-22 17:06

Limechat is pretty good for a GUI one.

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b3d0u1n · 2016-03-22 17:52

I have not really stayed up to date with the latest and greatest in
IRC clients.  [HexChat](https://hexchat.github.io/) is a fork of
XChat, which has been my favorite GUI IRC client since forever.  I
don't really know what "best/most capable" translates to though, as
IRC isn't a very complex thing.

I tried Colloquy for a while but considered it an oversimplification.
Its interface is very Mac like, but it's use is not very IRC like ...
if you know what I mean.

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Paradox · 2016-03-22 18:53

Textual basically does everything, save window splits, Linkinius did,
and you can make it look like linkinius:

http://i.imgur.com/FOeqH5T.png

I wish that I could get separate windows for Textual though. I'd love
to have 2 channels on one of the 4 monitors i've got at work.

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VoidByte · 2016-03-22 22:05

I've started using IRC Cloud + Fluid.app. IRC Cloud recognizes when
its being used via fluid.app and makes some minor changes,
notifications etc.

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[deleted] · 2016-03-23 06:11

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Saber_UK · 2016-03-23 22:38

I migrated from Linkinus about a year ago and I haven't found a way to
automatically close all PM windows in Textual but pretty much
everything else is the same.

Edit: Well, the developer mode (`/debug raw`) is terrible compared to
Linkinus but thats not really something which matters to most people.

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p4rosq · 2016-04-08 18:25

I wish it was out on linux. Inline (Is that what it's called?)
pictures is nice.

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EichrodtvonMark · 2016-04-12 03:51

I think that is the most best user friendly IRC client for OS X