HexChat might be a bit more popular than irssi. We know about 7 links to it since March 2021 and only 6 links to irssi. 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.
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: 9 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 / almost 3 years ago
You might mean IRC chat room. Irssi is very popular IRC client. Source: about 3 years ago
Start off using HexChat for a client. You can find channels here: https://netsplit.de/channels/. Source: 11 months ago
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
Gajim is for XMPP. For IRC you need Hexchat or Weechat or something like that. Source: about 1 year ago
Hexchat is one of the more popular ones. Source: over 1 year ago
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: about 2 years ago
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