Personally I used to use Pidgin, but since I moved my XMPP to Gajim because of OMEMO I have no need to stay tied to it necessarily. So I’m looking to expand my horizons, and I figured here’s as good a place as any to start a discussion about Linux IRC clients.
What do y’all use? Terminal, GUI, both?
- Shareni ( @Shareni@programming.dev ) 3•1 year ago
Circe, because why would you ever want to leave Emacs
- MyNameIsFred ( @fred@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Irssi
- 0x4E4F ( @0x4E4F@vlemmy.net ) 1•1 year ago
Try HexChat 😉.
- NaN ( @nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•1 year ago
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.
- bbbhltz ( @bbbhltz@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Hexchat and Weechat are both great. Konversation if you use KDE fits nicely with the DE. But, I only use IRC about an hour per month.
- glitched_lesbian ( @glitched_lesbian@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
I don’t use IRC much, but Polari was good I think.
I’ve also been using irssi, which has been good
- aperson ( @aperson@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Hexchat is best chat. Also, are you trying to start a war?
- melmel ( @melmel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•1 year ago
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
- Justin ( @Justin@apollo.town ) 1•1 year ago
I’m curious what keeps you on IRC and stops you migrating to Matrix?
- ellipse ( @ellipse@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•1 year ago
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
- donio ( @donio@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
For Emacs users one of the Emacs-based clients is often the best choice for the simple reason that you have access to all the usual Emacs cozies. It’s just another buffer. My pick is rcirc but they all work well enough, it comes down to personal preferences. Besides IRC I use it for all of my chat-type activity through bitlbee and other gateways. Over the decades chat protocols have come and gone but thanks to my IRC based setup they are all the same to me and all from the comfort of my Emacs session.
- alfredb ( @alfredb@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•1 year ago
I’m using both, irssi and quassel.
- Max-P ( @Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ) 0•1 year ago
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.
- collagenial ( @collagenial@lemmy.max-p.me ) English1•1 year ago
Seconding this. Among all the web IRC clients I have tried, The Lounge is the best, and the experience on mobile is pretty good.
- InFerNo ( @InFerNo@lemmy.ml ) 0•1 year ago
I use hexchat in combination with znc
- 7heo ( @7heo@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
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- InFerNo ( @InFerNo@lemmy.ml ) 0•1 year ago
Lemmy was having some serious issues around that time
- 7heo ( @7heo@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
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- InFerNo ( @InFerNo@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Don’t worry about the votes, it wasn’t an important message anyway :-)