Clients still currently in development

Snerf · Newbie Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 65 Location: IRC

I am just curious as to what IRC Clients are still currently in active development. I have seen so many just drop by the way-side, not sure why, lack of interest, or who knows what.

I know I can speak for IceChat myself, and its still in development at this very time, I am just curious from other developers what their status is on their projects.

w00t · Posted: May 31, 2005 7:00pm Post subject:

Obsidian (not something you will have heard of yet ;p) is sort of getting there in my copious free time. I have too many projects, as well as two jobs and school getting in the way.

katsklaw · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1058

w00t, school should be top priority young man! Razz

mIRC - http://www.mirc.com
bersirc - http://www.bersirc.com
klient - http://www.klient.com
trillian - http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/
xchat - http://www.xchat.org
bitchx - http://www.bitchx.org
kvirc - http://www.kvirc.net
epic - http://www.epicsol.org
konversation - http://konversation.kde.org

The above is a short list I can pull off the top my head. I'm sure there are many more.

w00t · Posted: May 31, 2005 10:25pm Post subject:

School is around the top someplace Smile

. Programming is just something I enjoy more.

angelic · Lurker Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Posts: 148

kvirc - http://www.kvirc.net/

mIRC was one of the things that stopped me from switching from windows to linux for a really long time and when i did finally make the jump i did a lot of research into different clients.

I decided on kvirc because it's an active project and it offers me pretty much what i had on mIRC, plus the developers are open to suggestions and pretty motivated (i like it because there are features you know they just did because they wanted to see if they could Wink

)

There's a windows version too Smile

Dr-Voodo · Eleet Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 535 Location: IRC

Probably a lot of more clients out there.

radius · Lurker Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 114

IRSSI

http://www.irssi.org/

best irc client for linux - if you don't use it start now!

Smile

ORenyRen · none Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 38

ChatZilla is still in development.

braindigitalis · Idler Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 443 Location: IRC

mine (WinBot) is just on hiatus.... too many projects not enough time.

Om · none Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 24

Just adding Gaim as the main client I saw missing from katsklaw's original list Smile

katsklaw · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1058

PingBad · Guru Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 2007 Location: New Zealand

I use GAIM for my MSN Messenger and ICQ accounts, but it does blow as an IRC client :/

Dr-Voodo · Eleet Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 535 Location: IRC

it does?!

w00t · Posted: Jun 06, 2005 6:33pm Post subject:

I use trillian myself - and find it lovely for MSN. However, I *hate* the simplified interface for IRC. IRC is not MSN. Having seperate windows for *each* and *every* channel and PM strewn out over the desktop is messy, and just not possible for someone like me who is generally connected to ~10-12 networks with ~30-40 channels open. I expect GAIM would be similar, however I have not used it.

angelic · Lurker Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Posts: 148

I really miss trillian. Someone needs to make a nix version.