ERC, why leave Emacs?
Because it’s healthy.
Weechat. Terminal based, flexible scripting system using a handful of languages, still actively developed, and I can make it work the way I want it to work.
Sounds too much like WeChat
If you’re going to not use software because you don’t like a program with a similar name, I really don’t know what to tell you… 🤷♂️
Would you run a distro called Windoze?
I don’t care what it’s called as long as it’s a decent distro and does what I need it to do.
I use Hexchat. It’s a fine GUI a client, simple and reliable. I use a ZNC bouncer so no need to keep a CLI client running 24/7.
Just to let you know, Hexchat is no longer maintained, unless someone has forked it. Might be worth looking into alternatives.
Has IRC been getting many new features recently? It kind of feels like the sort of thing where software can become “finished”.
I mean yeah, Hexchat does work pretty well and is kind of finished. But it’s possible there are existing security vulnerabilities or new ones to be discovered in the future.
Same. Hexchat + znc = peak of software development
hexchat, also Konversation
I use Quassel hosted on my server.
I run irssi on a Raspberry Pi. It has everything I need.
Irssi. It’s extensible and stable, been using it for years.
ircCloud because my self hosted push notifications were failing and it worked right away.
Irssi before I started depending on push notifications though.
I run Circe in Emacs because it’s lightweight and integrates with the modeline for not overly distracting notifications.
Convos - self hosted web based client written in Perl of all things, because it’s small, simple, does exactly what I want and no more, and avoids my having to faff with client + bouncer which was getting old 10 years ago and feels positively withering now.
Haven’t tried halloy, but it sounds cool, I wish rust build with shared libs in mind, instead of everything link statically, but it sounds interesting, I’ll see how it is compared to srain which is my current choice…
It’s old, but removedx.
can’t find any client by that name
imagine a pejorative term for women with the letter “x” appended to it
the client hasn’t been updated in a long time, perhaps someone needs to fork it.
Element, not only is Matrix the future but it handles bridging to irc well
Slack
