HexChat VS Spectrum Chat

HexChat

HexChat is a fork of XChat with bug fixes and new features.

Spectrum Chat

A newly open sourced self hosted Slack like alternative for building persistent chat communities

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2018-09-30

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2023-04-24

Opensource Spotlight: HexChat & IRC Chat - A Geek Underground

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to HexChat and Spectrum Chat)

Spectrum Chat

Group Chat & Notifications

77 77%

Group Chat & Notifications

23% 23

Communication

71 71%

Communication

29% 29

Messaging

100 100%

Messaging

0% 0

Work Collaboration

0 0%

Work Collaboration

100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, HexChat should be more popular than Spectrum Chat. It has been mentiond 7 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

HexChat mentions (7)

getting started with IRC. I have some questions.
Start off using HexChat for a client. You can find channels here: https://netsplit.de/channels/. Source: 12 months ago
DPReview.com is shutting down
First off, grab yourself an IRC client. On their connection info page Hackint has information for both WeeChat and Hexchat, but you could use any IRC client. Source: about 1 year ago
IRC Chat?
Gajim is for XMPP. For IRC you need Hexchat or Weechat or something like that. Source: over 1 year ago
TIFU by showing my dad the possibilities of the Internet.
Hexchat is one of the more popular ones. Source: over 1 year ago
Online in the 70s, 80s, and early 90s.
IRC - Also still around and in some cases, the same as it ever was, albeit with a smaller user base. A list of networks can be found here, and while there are many actively developed IRC clients out there, if you don't know where to start, most people recommend HexChat. Reddit's affiliated network is called Snoonet. mIRC is still actively developed by Khaled Mardam-Bey, so by all means, feel free to give that a... Source: over 2 years ago

Spectrum Chat mentions (1)

Show HN: GraphCDN, the GraphQL CDN with edge caching and analytics
> We spent months building custom caching for our GraphQL API from scratch Could you not abandon GraphQL? Returning non-customized responses, while taking more bandwidth, is much more cache friendly for the client, proxies and particularly servers - where you can do simple yet powerful things (e.g. version-based invalidation and pre-generated payloads come to mind). Like, I went to https://spectrum.chat/explore... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago