irssi or hexchat (earlier xchat) since forever. I’m one of the weird people that even paid for xchat on Windows ages ago.
I’ve never liked the clients that were just an extension in something else, like Pidgin.
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tmux + weechat. Also connect to it via weechat-android on my phone. Great for getting pings and quick replies while not at the desktop.
Try HexChat 😉.
Circe, because why would you ever want to leave Emacs
Hexchat is best chat. Also, are you trying to start a war?
Hexchat (GUI) and weechat (CLI) are good solutions.
Well, I just switched back to trusty old irssi after quassel became unbearable.
I use xchat. It’s simple to use and suits my needs just fine.
Weechat, it always annoys my Chinese colleagues.
I use The Lounge, it's a self hosted server/bouncer that you use through a web UI. That makes it so I can stay online 24/7, and can access IRC from any device including my phone. It even supports push notifications, so when someone pings me on IRC, I get notified on my phone and can go open up the client and look at my chats. It's pretty good!
Not as lightweight as a terminal client, but keeping a Firefox tab open for it isn't that memory hungry. Negligible when you have dozens of tabs open and a few Electron apps anyway.
Seconding this. Among all the web IRC clients I have tried, The Lounge is the best, and the experience on mobile is pretty good.
Weechat (not to be confused with wechat)... Similar to irssi with more modern features and extension language options.
I just use irssi nowadays, but I used to use Pidgin.
I've been using exclusively ERC for a while now, it works great.
Irssi ftw
Konversation because KDE is my bae
Yup irssi is the pro choice imho
Try HexCaht, you'll love it 😉.
I tend to vacillate between Konversation and Quassel, although I'm not on IRC anywhere as near as often as I used to be.
Just for fun, I sometimes still fire up BitchX, which I used to have running 24/7, fullscreen, in a dedicated virtual desktop, to feel like the good old DOS days. Given that the latest release was in 2014 (and the last Git commit was in 2019), it's probably not a great idea to use it, though.
I use app.element.io because it could record the messages when I'm offline
Weechat forever, bonus points if you open it through SSH on a machine that's going to be powered on 24/7 (could even be a raspberry pi)
Thanks for telling me pidgin isn't "secure" must of just remembered when it first came out and it was the bees knees. So I guess idk what to recommend now.
Irssi
Erc in emacs
thelounge self hosted web client
I haven't used IRC directly in years, Matrix all the way. And for that I switch between Element an KDE's Neochat.
I didn't do a lot of comparison but Hexchat works fine for me. It doesn't get in my way :-)
I'm curious what keeps you on IRC and stops you migrating to Matrix?
I'm guessing it's because IRC is proven, robust, simple, and has established communities. It's also extensible and can be run on anonymous networks like i2p
- said as a non IRC user
Only tried issri on CLI Linux… Hexchat on windows I couldn’t eve get to connect lol. What are people using to keep IRC open, so you can look back on chats? Pretty new to it
I'm using both, irssi and quassel.
I use a GUI, selfhosted and web based instance of The Lounge. Ive been using it for a few years now and its wonderfull. I can be connected at all times without leaving my laptop on. Before that i used Hexchat, dIRC (was a wonderful client for windows, so mist have been around 2000) and mIRC, which i think is still one of the biggest clients.
Used to use Konversation for a long time, now I use weechat running on a server I SSH into.
I haven't used irc in ages but my favorite was irssi. For some reason gui irc just didn't feel right to me.
Why not Biboumi? It works excellent with XMPP clients.
I use weechat in a terminal, though I recently spun up an instance of The Lounge that I plan to migrate to so I can easily access from mobile
The Lounge. Web, accessible everywhere, self-hosted.
irssi, the good ol' reliable!
ERC
HexChat is a good one for GUI.
And speaking of Pidgin, has anyone found an alternative to connecting to google chat since they broke the ability to get oauth keys for the purple-googlechat plugin? The only thing I found so far was the actual google chat client which requires having Chrome installed.
I use Quassel, being able to host the core that I can just connect to is nice.
Only downside of Quassel is it doesnt have DCC request but meh, DCC isnt as popular now as it used to anyways