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Alternative IRC client if/when ChatZilla is killed off |
torhu
Member #2,727
September 2002
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{"name":"610985","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/8\/a\/8a5a1dc41b88cd40f90fd338944c16cb.png","w":914,"h":725,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/8\/a\/8a5a1dc41b88cd40f90fd338944c16cb"} ChatZilla has been my favorite client for more than ten years, but its future seems uncertain now that Firefox is moving to WebExtensions only. I like ChatZilla's compromise between simplicity and features. mIRC used to be the "standard" client on Windows, but I have never been fond of it. Too much stuff. I tried KVIrc, which crashed twice during the first ten minutes or so. Then Quassel, which couldn't connect to Freenode. Not sure what's going on there. HexChat is ok, but it tends to forget scrolling the view down when there's a new message. Annoying. And it doesn't have ChatZilla's nice multiline input mode (Ctrl+Up), but I guess I can copy and paste from an editor as a workaround. There are some nice web based clients, but I feel they are a step down in general. |
Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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Use SeaMonkey - it will probably keep ChatZilla indefinitely. My Website! | EAGLE GUI Library Demos | My Deviant Art Gallery | Spiraloid Preview | A4 FontMaker | Skyline! (Missile Defense) Eagle and Allegro 5 binaries | Older Allegro 4 and 5 binaries | Allegro 5 compile guide |
torhu
Member #2,727
September 2002
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Yeah, but it seems a bit overkill to run SeaMonkey just for IRC... |
Oscar Giner
Member #2,207
April 2002
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torhu
Member #2,727
September 2002
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Looks interesting, maybe I will check it out. It's .NET, though. Using HexChat currently. |
Specter Phoenix
Member #1,425
July 2001
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Yeah, I have been using AdiIRC too. Granted I don't get on much.
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Neil Roy
Member #2,229
April 2002
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Man, I haven't used IRC in like... 15 years or so! Amazed people still use it. Had some good times back then. --- |
Specter Phoenix
Member #1,425
July 2001
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I annoyed everyone so I stopped using it.
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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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Specter Phoenix said: I annoyed everyone so I stopped using it. Whenever I log in, nobody is saying anything, so I do a "BREAKER 19!" and everybody chimes in for a couple minutes, but then I get the impression they want to go back to what they were doing. They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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Specter Phoenix said: I annoyed everyone so I stopped using it. We thank you for that. Arthur Kalliokoski said: Whenever I log in, nobody is saying anything, so I do a "BREAKER 19!" and everybody chimes in for a couple minutes, but then I get the impression they want to go back to what they were doing. That's high praise for IRC. -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
Specter Phoenix
Member #1,425
July 2001
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bamccaig said: We thank you for that. I was referring to Moosader's channel. Allegro had got to the point where it was always dead when I joined. Then you have channels like python and C++ that have so many users you can't figure out who they are talking to majority of the time. I should thank IRC for making me more dependent on Google and forums for finding solutions.
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