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mIRC 7.81
- dt3ft 1y agoWhy does mIRC distributes ca certs file and what is the usecase here? Just curious.
- kelsey978126 1y agoI'm so sorry, forgive me but has there been a release? What exactly is the news here?
- thebetatester 1y agoIt appears there has. I didn't realize mIRC was even still being developed but by the looks of it it's actually quite actively developed https://www.mirc.com/news.html https://www.mirc.com/news.html
- jsheard 1y agoSomeone has to keep the IRC lights on for when Discord inevitably runs out of money and implodes.
- echelon 1y agoDiscord makes $600M in ARR (2023) and they haven't even started with a real ads effort or enterprise tools yet.
- justin66 1y ago> Discord makes $600M in ARR Eventually they'll run out of ships to pillage, matey. But IRC will still be there.
- bolognafairy 1y agoAnd what does the last R in ARR stand for again?
- switch007 1y agoARR is an industry standard! It's an important metric! Our investors are only interested in that figure! Quick, look over there!
- blenderob 1y agoDid you not even click on the link before commenting? Right on that page is - > mIRC v7.81 has been released. which links to https://www.mirc.com/news.html https://www.mirc.com/news.html with info about the new release from April 9th 2025. Granted it would have been better if this post linked to https://www.mirc.com/news.html https://www.mirc.com/news.html Can some change the link to https://www.mirc.com/news.html https://www.mirc.com/news.html? Mods?
- skeeterbug 1y agoTo be fair, the front page news section doesn't even have a date next to the 7.81 release entry. I clicked it to see if there was a date, but at first glance the page just looked like a time capsule. The title of this post doesn't even mention the release.
- blenderob 1y agoFair point. The link of this post should be updated to the news page.
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- futurecat 1y agoyes, and this is a 30 year old software maintained by a solo dev. It's an incredible piece of internet history.
- saturn8601 1y agoWinRAR is also about to turn 30 in a few days.
- kilpikaarna 1y agomIRC turns thirty this year also
- marsavar 1y agoGosh, that brings back memories! I remember having so much fun coding my own trivia bots in mIRC Scripting Language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRC_scripting_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRC_scripting_language) over 20 years ago.
- patwolf 1y agoSame. mIRC scripting was really what motivated me to learn to program. I had tinkered a little bit with BASIC before that, but mIRC was what kept me interested. It's one thing to write uninteresting "hello world" CLI apps, but mIRC scripting was something you and your friends could immediately interact with. I wonder if kids today have something similar...maybe Roblox scripting?
- riffraff 1y agoyeah I think the "this is immediately useful for me" part of mIRC scripting was a key driver in pushing kids to learn programming, and it seems lost in modern times. But, perhaps, we're just not young anymore.
- diggan 1y ago> maybe Roblox scripting That, but also Discord is basically what people use on computers for communication today, and Discord also has bots. Of course, you cannot just willy-nilly write your own client for a Discord bot without dealing with tons of hassle, compared to how easy it is to write something that uses the IRC protocol, so not sure it's the same "instant gratification".
- CoolCold 1y agoLatest News mIRC 7.81 has been released! (April 9th 2025) Whoa!
- opan 1y agoIs it still proprietary and Windows-only?
- futurecat 1y agoit seems so, yes.
- bolognafairy 1y agoThis is something you could easily see for yourself, so this is certainly a rhetorical question. To which I’ll respond: the world doesn’t owe it to you to make all software usable on your operating system of choice. There’s no freedom in that.
- opan 1y agoI'm quite happy with irssi, just figured it was worth checking. Lots of stuff becomes free software if it sticks around long enough. Blender is a big one that was originally proprietary, I believe. I did check Wikipedia before posting and "get my answer", but I also considered that it could be out-of-date, or that there could be something in the works that the loyal users would know about, maybe a blog post about plans to liberate it in the future. Asking here seemed like a surefire way to double-check, but admittedly the answer was not that important or relevant to me, yeah.
- Sohcahtoa82 1y agoIt's so lightweight, I can't imagine WINE couldn't handle it. If you're on an ARM Mac, then...live with the consequences of your choices.
- diggan 1y agoAs someone who grew up on Windows + mIRC + vBulletin forums (late 90s, early 00s), mIRC will always ignite fond memories :) For those who still use IRC, but maybe on other platforms than Windows, HexChat could be considered a spiritual successor to mIRC, but it's also open source and available on a ton of platforms. Just a happy user here, not affiliated in any way. Edit: Hm, seems it was some time ago I checked out the news/blog of HexChat, seems like last version was a year ago. I still use it without problems, but maybe people could share any active forks if they know about them?
- futurecat 1y agoHalloy is a nice IRC client. Written in Rust and has a beautiful icon.
- xattt 1y agoAh yes, Rust IRC clients of the 1990s always trigger my fond nostalgia of the old Internet. /s
- airstrike 1y agohalloy now supports image embeds too, which is awesome given that has become "table-stakes" with how prevalent Discord is And it's time for my biweekly shoutout to iced, the wonderful GUI library used by halloy https://github.com/squidowl/halloy https://github.com/squidowl/halloy https://github.com/iced-rs/iced https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
- nicce 1y agoSometimes old things don’t need a rewrite just for the sake of language-based advertising.
- Suppafly 1y ago>Sometimes old things don’t need a rewrite just for the sake of language-based advertising. "X but in Rust" seems like the primary purpose for Rust to exist as far as I can tell.
- mediumsmart 1y agoDon’t forget to bring a large trout
- futurecat 1y agoOoooh I forgot about that! thank you! :D
- patwolf 1y agoI haven't used mIRC since the 5.X days, but I recall the author always included an updated profile photo in the about page. It was interesting to watch him age with each release update. I downloaded this version to see if that was still the case, and sadly the about page no longer includes a photo.
- aaronmdjones 1y agoI've never used mIRC (I use WeeChat under tmux), but I use IRC every day; I have for almost two decades. I had no idea mIRC was still being actively developed!
- ies7 1y agoHow is the future in 2078? https://xkcd.com/1782 https://xkcd.com/1782
- nobleach 1y agoJust here to bask in the nostalgia. I hit up bash.org from time to time just to remember what was... and what will probably never be again.
- languagehacker 1y agomIRC was my favorite app back in the '90s. Without it, I wouldn't have been able to spend like two days downloading The Decline from NOFX over a 56k dial-up connection. Honestly I'd probably still be using it if DALnet hadn't been DDoS'ed for months on end.
- arresin 1y agoWe had a school server. It was so exciting back then. Having long, live conversations with people by text was a new thing. It was the first time I had spoken to people in that form at my school and had seen their “text” personality (which is different to what you get IRL).
- joemazerino 1y agoThe mIRC connection sound will always have a place in my heart. I think Slack distinctly ripped it off.
- alecsm 1y agoI started coding in the early 2000s in mIRC Scripting. It felt like magic. With only a few lines I could add stuff to the context menus, write auto responses, etc. I remember doing an "AI" bot that you could talk to. If it recognized any words you said it would get a random predefined string from a .txt and send it to you. And a lot of "hacking" scripts. Fun times.
- chrisvalleybay 1y agoMe too! I still remember /perform, and even more fondly when I figured out how to create dialogs that would then trigger slash commands. NoNameScript was extremely inspiring in that regard. Not to mention the color theme of Brevduva Script. Good times!
- mike503 1y agoSame. One of my first forays into scripting. TCL for eggdrops too. Spent a lot of time and energy on IRC :)
- sph 1y agoSame. In the 2000s the mIRC scripting scene was buzzing, so many interesting scripts pushing the boundaries of the language to the point of binding directly into the Win32 API to do pretty much anything. We had music players, custom GUIs, bots, colour themes, all hand crafted by teenagers. I used to spend all my days chatting and browsing mircscripts.org It’s weird how that scene has just disappeared and no one seems to have written about it in retrospective. I keep thinking I should be the one to write about an article about that long lost art, but it’s so long ago and memory is a bit hazy. I was so annoyed when I moved to Linux and I had to chat with KVIRC which was so inflexible and rigid compared to mIRC.
- ceautery 1y agoThis brings back memories. I developed the "JoTrivia" mIRC script back around 2000/2001 as a way to kill time when I worked nighttime tech support and got maybe two calls a night. The scripting language syntax was completely bonkers, e.g., on *:JOIN:%jt.triv.chan:{ .notice $nick Welcome $nick! } Loads of fun, though, and IRC was nice venue back then to build a community out of strangers who had similar blocks of free time.
- keyle 1y agoThat beautiful application was on the wrong decade. Today it'd be worth millions if not more, for absolutely no reason at all.
- that_guy_iain 1y agoNot really. It was around the same time Napster blew up and became worth tons of money. Realistically, it was probably worth millions at its peak and is probably worth a million or so now. Edit: The company's filing says they have 1.2 million in assets. So realistically, to buy the company, you're looking at a few million. It's a 2 man show so I suspect they would want a few million or so to give up that revenue stream
- Suppafly 1y ago>That beautiful application was on the wrong decade. Today it'd be worth millions if not more, for absolutely no reason at all. Honestly, I'm surprised the author hasn't monetized it better by stealing back the features that were stolen by discord. Make some mIRC hosted servers and an easier way to connect to them by making them the defaults when you launch the program and such. Build in support for graphics and voice chat, etc.
- ndegruchy 1y agoIf I still used Windows, I would still use mIRC. I bought a copy ages ago and it's still one of my favorite clients. Highly customizable and fast as hell.
- crazymoka 1y agoStarted my mp3 collection with mIRC client. I believe my first mp3 was Killing in the Name by RATM followed up by Sober by Tool. Showed my friend how to play music on the computer and they were blown away. The good old days. Finding help for SQL, programming was a lot faster than today for some subjects. Sometimes I pop into HexChat but the servers I used to use aren't there or not as good. Freenode? I think it was called.
- Rodeoclash 1y agoUndernet on the #zeraw channel is where I spent a bit of time hanging out. You'd trade open FTP servers, I assume sysadmins had misconfigured them, that other users had uploaded games to. Games used to be split by disk files, i.e. 1.44mb individual files, and I would download 1 - 10 overnight while my friend would grab 11 - 20. We'd later call each other and use Zmodem to build a full set each. Fun time to be on the internet.
- Suppafly 1y ago>Undernet on the #zeraw I totally forgot about warez being backwards sometimes. I still visit #bookz but don't really pirate games and other media much anymore. Piracy really is a service issue and not a pricing problem once you're an adult with real money.
- lm411 1y agoIt was a hell of a time to be on the internet, for sure. Security was basically non-existent or so badly implemented that it was a joke. Some fond memories of my early teenage years: - Causing net splits to steal ops / takeover IRC channels - As part of a warez group, using site to site FTP transfers to move massive (at that time) amounts of warez without being limited by my 14400 modem - How crazy easy it was to crash/DOS pretty much any computer on the internet - Taking over company networks just for fun, and putting in backdoors that drove the sysadmins nuts Yeah, I was a shithead teenager, and am sincerely sorry to the sysadmins I messed with, as I am a sysadmin myself now. Eventually I ended up having many FBI-instigated meetings with the RCMP Commercial Crimes Division... They had boxes upon boxes of paper printouts from sniffing my connections. I think I got off partially because of my age (about 14). But also the fact that the telecom company I was using had illegally sniffed incoming telnet sessions to my Linux box before there was any warrant, and had logged in using credentials they had sniffed to read many personal emails between my brother and myself, and other friends that used the system. I realized what they were doing pretty quickly, but, I'm pretty sure their recklessness in doing that is what saved my butt in the end. This was a big crown corp telecom company.
- Urgo 1y agoFor mIRC's first 20 years when you bought it, the license was for all future versions for life. In ~2016 though that changed and they expired all previous lifetime licenses. Now you get a license only for a year. I know I shouldn't be upset as I did get a ton of use out of mIRC in the 90s/2000's and they probably didn't expect it to still be around and updated to this day, but expiring something sold as lifetime just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. They should have honored all previous lifetime licenses and just made new ones follow the new rules. You can see the changes on various pages here [1] pre 2016 and post 2016 [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160215000000*/https://www.mirc.com/register.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160215000000*/https://www.mirc...
- Suppafly 1y ago>In ~2016 though that changed and they expired all previous lifetime licenses. Now you get a license only for a year. That almost alleviates my guilt over having used it forever without paying for it.
- reverendsteveii 1y agoThat's enough to make me glad I never bought a license before and excited to never buy a license again. After all, why should I enter into an agreement that can be unilaterally voided by the other party?
- SomeUserName432 1y ago> For mIRC's first 20 years when you bought it, the license was for all future versions for life. In ~2016 though that changed and they expired all previous lifetime licenses. Now you get a license only for a year. That does not seem to hold true.. I do recall that the older licenses expired, but my current active mIRC license was issued September 2018.
- indrora 1y ago> now you get licenses only for a year I have been using the license I bought in 2010 for the last 15 years now. I have, since then, ended up purchasing several licenses for friends and none have had issues updating. I recently just reinstalled using that 2010 license. He will retain the information for a license for up to a year to retrieve it again
- Thoreandan 1y agoI registered my copy. I also remember that in the Help->About, if you clicked Khaled Mardam-Bey's nose it would squeak.
- sph 1y agoHaha you unlocked a core memory. Now that you mention it, I vividly remember the sound
- tomkarho 1y agoLet's hope development continues until 2051. https://xkcd.com/1782 https://xkcd.com/1782.
- johnisgood 1y agoI still prefer screen + irssi. :D I remember the good old days with mIRC though, before I moved to Linux, so maybe when I was 11-12 or younger?
- jackvalentine 1y agoFor anyone who remembers that drama about lifetime licences being suspended unless you email him and have a whinge - this pissed me off immensely but a few months ago I tried my old licence that had stopped working and it worked again so I guess awful policy reversed.
- raluk 1y agoI learned programming using mIRC scripting. There used to be bunch of quiz chaneles about trivia. I logged channel to collect questions and then wrote script that provided response after some time based on linear function k + n*len(response). That was my fist piece of software I wrote. mirc scrpting based on event system was super nice system to work with. Later I also wrote chat bot and i collected have some funny conversations with strangers.
- cainxinth 1y agoI spent my high school years on 14.4, 28.8, and finally 56k modems. When I got to college, I got my first taste of broadband, and boy did it get me in trouble. I would be up all night trading files on mIRC.
- TrackerFF 1y agoIRC is what everyone used for group/channel chats back when I grew up, out in rural Norway. Most towns had their #town channels, down to some very small hamlets that are barely populated today. Man, all the memories. Always had some joker that had download some nefarious script (legit script-kiddies), that they'd share on the channels - and eventually get permabanned from. Then MSN messenger became popular, and kind of drove away the more casual users. And after that social media became a thing, and the rest is history. Haven't really used IRC in 20 years now. The people that continued to use IRC were mostly gamers, for team chats etc. But I guess discord killed that, too.
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- syeare 1y agoHexChat dies, mIRC lives?!