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A few more, which seem to be used somewhat commonly: - Emacs clients: built-in rcirc and erc, non-built-in Circe. - irrsi (standalone TUI) - Quassel IRC (GUI

A few more, which seem to be used somewhat commonly: - Emacs clients: built-in rcirc and erc, non-built-in Circe. - irrsi (standalone TUI) - Quassel IRC (GUI; have not tried it myself, but saw others using it). - mIRC (GUI, for Windows).

mavhc 2y ago
Quassel is basically self hosted irccloud, I use it on 5 computers, Windows, Linux and Android, it's great
immibis 2y ago
I use Quassel because it's a so-called "split" client, where "quassel core" runs on a VPS, and then I can run actual clients of the quassel core on several different devices, including Quasseldroid on Android. It's a much better experience than sshing into a screen session.
squigz 2y ago
I used irssi for many years before switching to Weechat, and I can't imagine ever switching back.
xena 2y ago
mIRC is one of the best chat programs on the market these days. It uses megabytes of ram at most for hundreds of channels. It's a modern technology miracle and I wish more people used it.
- k1kingy 2y ago
  I haven't used IRC in years, but when I started out with IRC/MSN Chat in 2001ish it was using mIRC. That piece of software can basically answer for my becoming a developer and the career I've had over the last 20 odd years.
- econ 2y ago
  Long ago I installed dozens of irc clients, joined a few dozen servers, a few hundred channels. Most didn't do well. Then there was kvirc that just sat there at 0% CPU no matter what I did.
  - diggan 2y ago
    > Long ago I installed dozens of irc clients, joined a few dozen servers, a few hundred channels Maybe mIRC got bloated as of late, but my shitty Windows XP computer could easily handle multiple networks and 50-ish channels per network back in early 2000s, could it really have gotten so much worse since then?
    - econ 2y ago
      I don't actually remember how good or bad mirc was. It was the most popular client at the time but lacked things I don't really remember, it was time to move on. I tried Quassel which was nice but it got slow as the logs grew. Then i tried a lot of clients.
  - sho_hn 2y ago
    Back when I was maintaining an IRC client, my go-to stress test was to hop on Wikipedia's IRC network, where they have a bunch of firehose channels showing edits to Wikipedia stream by in realtime. Both super high load and occasionally edifying :)
- bdhcuidbebe 2y ago
  I bought a mIRC licence after I got my first job, one of the beat shareware apps!

mavhc 2y ago

Quassel is basically self hosted irccloud, I use it on 5 computers, Windows, Linux and Android, it's great

immibis 2y ago

I use Quassel because it's a so-called "split" client, where "quassel core" runs on a VPS, and then I can run actual clients of the quassel core on several different devices, including Quasseldroid on Android. It's a much better experience than sshing into a screen session.

squigz 2y ago

I used irssi for many years before switching to Weechat, and I can't imagine ever switching back.

xena 2y ago

mIRC is one of the best chat programs on the market these days. It uses megabytes of ram at most for hundreds of channels. It's a modern technology miracle and I wish more people used it.

k1kingy 2y ago
I haven't used IRC in years, but when I started out with IRC/MSN Chat in 2001ish it was using mIRC. That piece of software can basically answer for my becoming a developer and the career I've had over the last 20 odd years.
econ 2y ago
Long ago I installed dozens of irc clients, joined a few dozen servers, a few hundred channels. Most didn't do well. Then there was kvirc that just sat there at 0% CPU no matter what I did.
- diggan 2y ago
  > Long ago I installed dozens of irc clients, joined a few dozen servers, a few hundred channels Maybe mIRC got bloated as of late, but my shitty Windows XP computer could easily handle multiple networks and 50-ish channels per network back in early 2000s, could it really have gotten so much worse since then?
  - econ 2y ago
    I don't actually remember how good or bad mirc was. It was the most popular client at the time but lacked things I don't really remember, it was time to move on. I tried Quassel which was nice but it got slow as the logs grew. Then i tried a lot of clients.
- sho_hn 2y ago
  Back when I was maintaining an IRC client, my go-to stress test was to hop on Wikipedia's IRC network, where they have a bunch of firehose channels showing edits to Wikipedia stream by in realtime. Both super high load and occasionally edifying :)
bdhcuidbebe 2y ago
I bought a mIRC licence after I got my first job, one of the beat shareware apps!