Best client for IRC?

[Lorelei-]

Just wondering what people would recommend as the best client to use for IRC. At the moment I just use the standard XChat that comes with Ubuntu and its mostly ok but I'd rather use something a bit sleeker looking to be honest.

Any suggestions?

[alenis]

ChatZilla works well and as a Firefox add-on is very convenient.

[Polygon]

sleeker? Define sleeker.......mirc is one of the most popular irc clients and i personally think its downright ugly......

[FuturePilot]

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[-grubby]

I use Konversation. Irssi is also good

[will1911a1]

Irssi is my client of choice.

[bfc]

I've been switching between weechat and irssi. I'm still undecided on the one I will stick with.

[sujoy]

weechat :)

[Lorelei-]

sleeker? Define sleeker.......mirc is one of the most popular irc clients and i personally think its downright ugly......

something that looks a bit better really. largely because xchat seems determined to display all my messages in a horrid hard to read grey font (at least to me anyway) no matter how many times I alter the settings!

[tuxxy]

Weechat or IRSSI

[Dr Small]

Irssi

[notwen]

+1 irssi

[Lorelei-]

I'm sensing a theme here with IRSSI :lolflag:

download link/install instructions please?

[sertse]

apt-get install irssi works heh. Most distros have it.

Of the two, I like weechat though, it was the channel userlist on the right (like xchat etc), instead of having to /name to get it.

Both irssi and weechat are console based irc clients btw

[Lorelei-]

Of the two, I like weechat though, it was the channel userlist on the right (like xchat etc), instead of having to /name to get it.

Both irssi and weechat are console based irc clients btw

I may install both then and experiment a bit.

[dirtylobster]

Of the two, I like weechat though, it was the channel userlist on the right (like xchat etc), instead of having to /name to get it.

...which sucks when you want to copy/paste stuff. I moved the userlist to the top of the screen.

weechat (using ssh + screen) running 24/7 on my server is my client of choice.

[Austin_Duffy]

When I was on Windows XP I used a chat program called mIRC. It was quite use full but the negative is that it costs money after 40 trail days. But the positive it that it came with some pretty handy scripts including color changing for everything same with font changing if you have the fonts installed that is if style is an issue. Now that I know of Irssi I'll most likely be using it(new to ubuntu here).

[billgoldberg]

I used to use pidgin. I know use xchat.

I'm not on irc that much, but both seem to do the job just fine.

[Dr Small]

When I was on Windows XP I used a chat program called mIRC. It was quite use full but the negative is that it costs money after 40 trail days. But the positive it that it came with some pretty handy scripts including color changing for everything same with font changing if you have the fonts installed that is if style is an issue. Now that I know of Irssi I'll most likely be using it(new to ubuntu here).
I used to use mIRC on Windows but never had to pay.

[Corfy]

I used to use pidgin. I know use xchat.

I'm not on irc that much, but both seem to do the job just fine.

I'm a Pidgin user myself. I like having all those accounts in one program (Yahoo, MSN, AOL, ICQ, Jabber, MySpace and IRC). Never really used any other IRC programs, so I can't compare it. But I also don't spend a lot of time on IRC.

[Grant A.]

Most definitely irssi.

[Christmas]

I recommend XChat for graphical clients. It's built in GTK, has C plugin interface, scripting in Perl, Python, Tcl. It's very powerful. If you want a client for KDE, try Konversation and KVirc. For CLI go with Irssi, it's such a beautiful application in my opinion.

[zmjjmz]

irssi is pwnful, but if you want to fix XChat just set the background to something that contrasts with grey.

[necromonger]

i use kvirc works good for me.

[CharlesA]

Back to sleep you go..