Ask HN: Best IRC client for Mac?

3 points·josh-wrale··14 comments

I found an old thread on this[1], but it's from five years ago. Anything new and/or better out there now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=642193

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Because links are hard.

LimeChat: http://limechat.net/mac/

Textual: http://www.codeux.com/textual/

Colloquy: http://colloquy.info/

WeeChat: http://weechat.org/

IRCCloud: https://irccloud.com (web-based, invite/beta)

I've been using Colloquy, but I'm open to trying other apps.

Call me old-school:

iTerm2 + SSH to my VPS + screen + irssi

It's my client for ALL my OSes, and it's consistent/persistent across them. :)

I've really been enjoying https://irccloud.com

It's Textual, unless somebody is willing to testify otherwise. Textual is infinitely better than LimeChat, in particular. It's probably better than Colloquy, if only because I tried Colloquy but now I'm using Textual. XChat Aqua is buggy and broken.

What is it about Textual that makes it better than others?

LimeChat is basically a UI disaster. I ended up hating it whenever I wanted to search the comment history. I have never been annoyed by Textual. It's just nice. I haven't used Colloquy recently enough to remember, but there was something about it that made me switch away. XChat Aqua would be missing random characters from users' names in the user list.

Yeah that definitely sounds like a major problem.

I normally use weechat on a server for a persistent connection, but I've been playing around with ZNC on the server and Textual on my local machine.

Of the two, I've had a better experience with weechat.

Textual is really good. Colloquy can bridge session to mobile client. Irssi is pr0 and 1337

I run znc on my server and connect to it using weechat from my mba.

I use Limechat

Limechat

Textual

I love `irssi` :D

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