Personally I used to use Pidgin, but since I moved my XMPP to Gajim because of OMEMO I have no need to stay tied to it necessarily. So I’m looking to expand my horizons, and I figured here’s as good a place as any to start a discussion about Linux IRC clients.

What do y’all use? Terminal, GUI, both?

  • cvr@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 year ago

    tmux + weechat. Also connect to it via weechat-android on my phone. Great for getting pings and quick replies while not at the desktop.

  • melmel
    1·
    1 year ago

    Only tried issri on CLI Linux… Hexchat on windows I couldn’t eve get to connect lol. What are people using to keep IRC open, so you can look back on chats? Pretty new to it

  • ianhclark510
    1·
    1 year ago

    Weechat forever, bonus points if you open it through SSH on a machine that’s going to be powered on 24/7 (could even be a raspberry pi)

    • ellipse@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      5·
      1 year ago

      I’m guessing it’s because IRC is proven, robust, simple, and has established communities. It’s also extensible and can be run on anonymous networks like i2p

      • said as a non IRC user
  • Johannes Jacobs@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl
    1·
    1 year ago

    I use a GUI, selfhosted and web based instance of The Lounge. Ive been using it for a few years now and its wonderfull. I can be connected at all times without leaving my laptop on. Before that i used Hexchat, dIRC (was a wonderful client for windows, so mist have been around 2000) and mIRC, which i think is still one of the biggest clients.

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
    0·
    1 year ago

    I use The Lounge, it’s a self hosted server/bouncer that you use through a web UI. That makes it so I can stay online 24/7, and can access IRC from any device including my phone. It even supports push notifications, so when someone pings me on IRC, I get notified on my phone and can go open up the client and look at my chats. It’s pretty good!

    Not as lightweight as a terminal client, but keeping a Firefox tab open for it isn’t that memory hungry. Negligible when you have dozens of tabs open and a few Electron apps anyway.

    • collagenial@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Seconding this. Among all the web IRC clients I have tried, The Lounge is the best, and the experience on mobile is pretty good.