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Best IRC program?
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2003
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whats the best IRC program thats available for the mac?
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2000
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hmmm...there are many, depending on your needs. I like X-Chat Aqua myself, or KSirc when I am in X Windows.
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Power Macintosh Dual G4
SGI Indigo2 6.5.21f
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: columbus
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I've fallen in love with Minerva. If you liked mIRC on the pc then you should love it too...
I even registered it! I can't even rember the last time I registered some shareware!... may have been Wolfenstine 3D back in the day.
Bart
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Powermac Sawtooth w/ 1.3ghz overclocked GigaDesigns 1ghz cpu
iBook G3-900
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Norway (I eat whales)
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X-chat -> Features (I use this one).
IRC -> Speed (and good looking to).
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Sniffer gone old-school sig
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Baninated
Join Date: Jul 2002
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All the recent IRC apps are ok. They just don't seem to have all the features I need.
Snak seems to be the most mature.
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Forum Regular
Join Date: May 2002
Location: New York
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IRSSI
you can install it off of fink. gzl has a good tutorial on setting it up here.
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Illinois
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Moderator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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It's all a matter of preference. Search the forums and you will see several threads discussing the advantages/disadvantages of each.
I use ircle for OS X and BitchX for Linux.
*shrug*
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"And after we are through, ten years in making it to be the most of glorious debuts."
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Washington, DC
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Originally posted by Lordx_:
IRSSI
you can install it off of fink. gzl has a good tutorial on setting it up here.
I'll second that for irssi.
It's a VERY nice command line client. But, if messing around with the CLI, fink, and unix isn't your thing, then I'd recommend X-Chat Aqua.
Both are free open-sourced projects.
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/Earth\ Mk\.\ I{2}/
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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I'd throw my vote for iRC. Simply the best next to mIRC for Windows.
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mac.goodies webstore / Switched to an iBook in November 2002. Never looking back.
iBook R.I.P. 20 Nov 2002 - 2 Aug 2005
Hello Leopard! On iMac 17" Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz 2GB, iPod 5th gen 30GB and iPhone
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
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Originally posted by Lordx_:
IRSSI
you can install it off of fink. gzl has a good tutorial on setting it up here.
All the cool people in #macnn use irssi.
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#macnn: where all the real action is at.
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Originally posted by SteevAK:
All the cool people in #macnn use irssi.
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Power Macintosh Dual G4
SGI Indigo2 6.5.21f
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Berkeley, CA
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BitchX. I have a screen'd group of BitchX sessions running on an OS X Server box, and I ssh into it and resume the screen from wherever I am (home, school, work, etc).
This way I never have to quit/launch irc apps, I just leave BitchX running for months at a time.
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Baninated
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Here is a shot of Snak
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2002
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Zimphire: LOL! 
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mac.goodies webstore / Switched to an iBook in November 2002. Never looking back.
iBook R.I.P. 20 Nov 2002 - 2 Aug 2005
Hello Leopard! On iMac 17" Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz 2GB, iPod 5th gen 30GB and iPhone
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Baninated
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Originally posted by andretan:
Zimphire: LOL!
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Edmonton, AB
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I prefer Snak myself. Really should upgrade from this version 4.8.4...
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Connecticut
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Originally posted by Lordx_:
IRSSI
you can install it off of fink. gzl has a good tutorial on setting it up here.
what he said ^^^
but if you don't want to install FINK or want a GUI... iRC is the best
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Chico, California
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There are so many mediocre IRC programs out there. I used Snak in OS 9, but in OS X, it seems so out of date. I would use Snak if I wanted to use scripts and what not, but I use iRC for my simple chat needs now. Besides, iRC just got AppleScript support...
It has the best Cocoa GUI (although still room for work IMO) and just plain the most straightforward program.
One question about iRC though: does anyone know how to do command shortcuts? Like "/j macnn" instead of have to type "/join #macnn" every time? That gets annoying.
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