IRC clients

**Acko** · June 11th, 2013 at 4:57 PM

I use chatzilla, personally. However, I have been looking for a good independent IRC client for a while. I know mIRC exists, but it has a time bomb. So any suggestions?

**Darth-Apple** · June 11th, 2013 at 5:03 PM

Hexchat is really nice, and unlike xchat, it's free which is nice. That's what I use.

**Gmdykfuiygh66476** · June 11th, 2013 at 5:26 PM

I'm using xchat. It's free Tongue

**Darth-Apple** · June 11th, 2013 at 5:29 PM

It was free for only 30 days for me, and then forced me to register. Not sure if I missed something or not when I installed it, but that was pretty annoying.Ã‚Â

**Acko** · June 11th, 2013 at 5:34 PM

per Blake's tip, I've went with HexChat. Though it's real... white and I can't stand looking at it sometimes. Are there any themes available?

**Darth-Apple** · June 11th, 2013 at 5:39 PM

I'm not actually sure. There may be some themes available, but I haven't seen any yet.

**Acko** · June 11th, 2013 at 5:40 PM

Well, I guess there are now. (really should have just googled that myself lol)

**Darth-Apple** · June 11th, 2013 at 5:42 PM

Ah nice. I'll have to try some of them out myself. Big Grin

Towncrafter · June 11th, 2013 at 6:26 PM

I use the built-in irc client in the opera browser. I've tried chatzilla, and i tried mirc a long time ago, but i didn't like those two.

**Darth-Apple** · June 11th, 2013 at 6:31 PM

Oh opera has a built in client? I'll have to check it out. I thought it was a plugin, so that's pretty neat.

**Acko** · June 11th, 2013 at 7:37 PM

And now, I temporarily use cIRC for chrome.

**Darth-Apple** · June 11th, 2013 at 7:39 PM

cIRC? Haven't heard of that one. I'll have to check it out.

**Acko** · June 11th, 2013 at 7:55 PM

Yeah, it's kind of minimal though. ChatZilla is a plugin for firefox, and is more complex than that.

**SpookyZalost** · May 30th, 2017 at 5:05 AM

I actually use hexchat, it comes with the linux distro I use... but i know it's also possible to telnet into an IRC and use a command line, if you are inclined to do that.

**SpookyZalost** · February 22nd, 2019 at 3:49 AM

so reviving this, does anybody still use IRC?

I use it occasionally when I'm stumped with linux and the usual forums come up short but I know there's still tons of active IRC channels.

Thomas · February 22nd, 2019 at 4:07 AM

I do! Daily. Hexchat is my go to. I'm on freenode and some torrent tracker networks.

**SpookyZalost** · February 22nd, 2019 at 4:32 AM

awesome! yeah I love using hexchat on my various nixboxes Tongue

Freenode for the win man!

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