Quassel nowadays, because I'm on my phone more often than my laptop. Back when I say at a keyboard more, it was irssi, no contest
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Convos - self hosted web based client written in Perl of all things, because it's small, simple, does exactly what I want and no more, and avoids my having to faff with client + bouncer which was getting old 10 years ago and feels positively withering now.
Slack
ircCloud because my self hosted push notifications were failing and it worked right away.
Irssi before I started depending on push notifications though.
Twitch dot tv
Polaris.
Yes i am old
Element, not only is Matrix the future but it handles bridging to irc well
the future
Only if the future is a privacy and GDPR minefield...
What makes it more of a minefield than email?
Self hosted ‘The Lounge’ is great.
Yes TheLounge is fantastic but I switched to Convos these days because it's lighter weight and I somehow manage to overrun my disk much less often :)
WeeChat! I've been using WeeChat for like 13 years now and I love it. I used to use irssi back in the days and mIRC before irssi existed.. Some bitchX experiments may have happened at some point during the shell boom too.
This remote interface is the biggest selling point to me even today, it's amazing: WeeChat-Android.
The one I wrote myself. Not because its any better ha ha. Its pretty fun to work on it though.
Hexchat and pidgin. What to do now when they are not supported on wayland?
Quassel, self-hosted.
irssi. No explanation necessary
hexchat, also Konversation
Haven't tried halloy, but it sounds cool, I wish rust build with shared libs in mind, instead of everything link statically, but it sounds interesting, I'll see how it is compared to srain which is my current choice...
It’s old, but removedx.
can't find any client by that name
imagine a pejorative term for women with the letter "x" appended to it
the client hasn't been updated in a long time, perhaps someone needs to fork it.
It's been dead for a decade, even if it were forked it would still be 10 year old code. There's plenty of good CLI clients like irssi and weechat still under active development.
Yeah, but I want the irc client with a cussword name that i used to use, not boring old irssi
Is mIRC still a thing? Do people still use it? Gosh I feel old.
I was gonna say this is my favorite, with IRCn on top. It's been a while since I connected. Is EFNet still around?
I downloaded it not that long ago and worked great!
That's the first one I thought of as well. And your third point, too... Haha
I remember back in day, my friends would learn how to script only to modify their mIRC and have some sick startup animations and music.
Then MSN Messenger showed up.
For Windows I like 0irc. It's extremely lightweight and portable. For a browser alternative, KiwilIRC works in a pinch.
You know, I wish I could enjoy IRC - or chatrooms in general. But I just struggle with them. Forums and their ilk, I get. I check in on them and see what's been posted since I last visited, and reply to anything that motivates me to do so. Perhaps I'll even throw a post up myself once in a while.
But with IRC, Matrix, Discord, etc, I just feel like I only ever enter in the middle of an existing conversation. It's fine on very small rooms where it's almost analagous to a forum because there's little enough conversation going on that it remains mostly asynchronous. But larger chatrooms are just a wall of flowing conversation that I struggle to keep up with, or find an entry point.
Anyway - to answer the actual question, I use something called "The Lounge" which I host on my VPS. I like it because it remains online even when I am not, so I can atleast view some of the history of any conversation I do stumble across when I go on IRC. I typically just use the web client that comes with it.
I feel the same way. I don't feel like hanging around for someone else's conversation to end so I can actually get what the fuck is happening.
senpai
Irssi. It's extensible and stable, been using it for years.
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