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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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious what keeps you on IRC and stops you migrating to Matrix?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 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
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Circe, because why would you ever want to leave Emacs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Try HexChat 😉.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm using both, irssi and quassel.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use hexchat in combination with znc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy was having some serious issues around that time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Don't worry about the votes, it wasn't an important message anyway :-)