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Best IRC Program?

Opinions of the best IRC program? I use mIRC right now...but im wondering if there is anything out there that people seem to find better, but just as free as mIRC.

I personally use XChat. The version on their site is a 30 day evaluation, but you can grab a copy of an unofficial free X-Chat build for Windows here.

Last edited by ConceptualMind, July 25th, 2005 04:38 AM (Edited 1 times)

yeah Xchat or irssi. Bitchx is also pretty good, apparently.

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mIRC is most likley the best if your looking for tons upon tons of scripts..

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Originally posted by ConceptualMind:

I personally use XChat. The version on their site is a 30 day evaluation, but you can grab a copy of an unofficial free X-Chat build for Windows here.

I'd also like to add (before anyone says anything) that it's perfectly legal as their source is liscenced under the GPL.

X-Chat is my favorite (largely because I'm an open-source software advocate). Irssi is really nice in features too, but you have to run it from a terminal/console. No GUI. :P

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Originally posted by ConceptualMind:

I personally use XChat. The version on their site is a 30 day evaluation, but you can grab a copy of an unofficial free X-Chat build for Windows here.

Ah, thanks. I wasn't aware there was a free Windows build. I'm using a PC for a while and the 30 day trial had expired. I had to use the IRC client in UT2k4.

mIRC is really good, especially if you get the NoNameScript addon for it from http://www.nnscript.de (it's in english, dont get put off by the .de).

Xchat is the best, except it uses GTK+, which has problems with my mouse. For whatever reason my cursor moves slower while a GTK window is active. Trillian has IRC support too, although it's...exactly what you'd expect from Trillian as far as options go.

The free win build is perfectly legit, in fact the xchat owner even points it out in one of his FAQ's.

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Originally posted by Rad:

Originally posted by ConceptualMind:

I personally use XChat. The version on their site is a 30 day evaluation, but you can grab a copy of an unofficial free X-Chat build for Windows here.

Ah, thanks. I wasn't aware there was a free Windows build. I'm using a PC for a while and the 30 day trial had expired. I had to use the IRC client in UT2k4.

I didn't know that either. Thanks.

Oddly enough, this post started because I saw some screenshots of peoples desktops and saw XChat on it. Got me wondering if it was some sort of irc client. Then I got to thinking if there was somthing better than mIRC out there. Thanks for the input, definatly going to try XChat out!