If you don't mind terminal clients, irssi is still regularly updated (most recent version was released in March of this year). It's available with homebrew. Source: 10 months ago

I found Irssi which apperantly has the capability to do this but the configuration is more complex than I hoped. While my experiments haven't concluded yet, is anybody aware of an easy to use IRC client that I can use to crawl the messages in an IRC channel? Source: almost 2 years ago

Eggdrop [0] and BitchX [1] come to mind. Irssi [2] has a plugin that enables Tcl scripting. I'm currently fiddling with TkCAD [3] in order to put a small CNC machine to use here, it needs some small adaptations to work on Linux, but I find it a nice find! [0] https://eggheads.org/ [1] http://bitchx.sourceforge.net/ [2] https://irssi.org/ [3] https://github.com/revarbat/TkCAD. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

I've used irssi (https://irssi.org) for years. Have a session running on a shell host under tmux. Works perfectly for me on a desktop and a mobile ssh client. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

You might mean IRC chat room. Irssi is very popular IRC client. Source: about 3 years ago

That's some https://geekprank.com/hacker/ level shit. Source: about 2 years ago

I believe it is this one: https://geekprank.com/hacker/. Source: over 2 years ago

This guy probably went to https://geekprank.com/hacker/ than he became addicted to hacker movies. Source: about 3 years ago