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that's why it's here, not why it's the top item, but WTH, I guess enough people just discovered it, so enjoy, it's a really nice client.

I personally switched to gnome-xchat recently, which is not as feature rich, but is really nice as well, and looks better IMHO.

XChat doesn't seem to be maintained anymore (I do not know about gnome-xchat).

Have you considered Hexchat? I migrated to it one year ago and seems solid while keeping the same look and feel.

xchat-gnome seems to be in low-maintenance mode, 2 commits in Q2 2016 (https://git.gnome.org/browse/xchat-gnome/).

I tried hexchat, and I don't remember why, I didn't like it so much. I'll give it another try I suppose.