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What IRC client do you use?
moerl:
That's IF you use one. I'm just curious. I use mIRC and while that works well, I never stopped looking for something simpler, cleaner and easier. Don't get me wrong.. I don't think mIRC is hard to use, really, but I happen to love fast, efficient, well-designed and ESPECIALLY well thought-out software, and I don't know if I can say that about mIRC. It's very feature-rich and it more than gets the job done, but I guess I wouldn't mind trying out something innovative, nice-looking and efficient as opposed to mIRC, which is among the grand-daddies among IRC clients. (That in and of itself is not a bad thing, of course)
Anyway.. this isn't a thread about me finding an alternative IRC client.. it's a thread about what you use and about discussing clients in general as the thread goes along :)
mouser:
mirc for me, i am just used to it and like it's clean interface.
but it is a bit long in the tooth..
Josh:
I use mirc with the acidmax script (www.tnexgen.com). Great combo plus auto-update
Gothi[c]:
I use irssi
housetier:
I use and recommend xchat, a multiplatform irc client. There are several versions available for windows and only the official build by zed himself requires registration after 30 days. The other versions are free but might lack certain features.
Xchat is sriptable through various programming langues. mircscript is not supported; but perl, python, tcl, javascript, lisp, ruby, c (and one more) are. Most scripts require a language plugin, with most scripts being written for perl, then python. There are tcl scripts as well, and, no, you cannot use eggdrop scripts with in xchat.
What IRC client do you use?
The looks can be changed by gtk themes and internal configuration of colors and events, and it gets complicated quickly. The screenshot above shows what my xchat looks like. I have attached the corresponding config files (you will need to change them!)
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