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Comment by herewulf | Hacker News Reader

As a user of XChat[0] since 1999, I can tell you that it's definitely not encrypted or secure. Don't believe the hype!

Somehow I feel like they should just go all in at call it BitchX[1], that also have the same Bitcoin style of encryption, none.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitchX

I really hope you're not still using it. It was last updated in 2010. Even the website hasn't been updated to use HTTPS.

Oh, wait, is Elon porting the venerable xchat to Rust? :)

> Oh, wait, is Elon porting the venerable xchat to Rust? :)

If this hasn't been done already, I have a new weekend project!

Honestly we're a little short on good IRC clients, so it's not that stupid.

I have resorted to rolling my own version of irccloud. It became embarrassing how much I spent over the years for such a simple service. Also learning then irc protocol in its bizarre entirety was pretty fun.

kvirc ftw!

For those of you who don't know, the project was archived in 2024 but there was at least one modern fork of XChat in the form of HexChat: https://hexchat.github.io/

> Dubbed "XChat" (not to be confused with the venerable Linux/Windows IRC app of the same name)

It’s not the same XChat

@grok is this true?

Is there grok on hackernews?

lol!

Concerning

Looking into this

I think you missed the joke. As a fellow XChat user I can assure you, Elon is wrong.

I apparently did, although I still struggle to understand what the joke is, to be honest.

Thank you for at least explaining that I missed a joke, it’s a lot more helpful than downvotes. (I’m not complaining, I don’t really care about internet points, I was just confused about what I did wrong) :)

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