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PTTG??

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Finished IRC clients?
« on: July 16, 2009, 09:55:05 pm »
I've been trying for quite some time to find an IRC client that actually works. It seems that even though they've been working for more than a decade, no programmer has succeeded in making a IRC client.

Perhaps it's because they want to put all kinds of trash features, filling three quarters of the screen with various image things and file transfers and I don't know what.

I don't want any of that. What I want is: an IRC client. What I want is this:
[09:04] <PTTG> MAN I hate IRCs. I could write a better protocal for telnet.
[09:09] <PTTG> In theory, anyway.
[09:09] <PTTG> Well, actually not.
[09:09] <PTTG> But the UI for these clients could use a lot of work!
[09:10] <PTTG> All you need to tell it is what server and what- what is it, room? you want to be in, and the password for that room.
[09:11] <PTTG> And they bury all that in two separate interfaces and put a command-line in the way.
[09:13] <PTTG> In PttIRC you start it up and in ONE window, you have four boxes and three buttons: Network, 'Room', password, and port(optional).
[09:15] <PTTG> The buttons are: Connect, Advanced, and Cancel. And in that order, too. These whipper-snapper programmers think it's funny to get the button order backwards.
[09:16] <PTTG> It's "OK" on the left, "Cancel" on the right. I shouldn't have to read each one to figure it out!
[09:16] <PTTG> And get off my lawn, you punks!

Yes, a pop-up and a text display. Every line of code for something else is a waste of time.
What IRC client do you people use?
« Last Edit: July 16, 2009, 09:58:44 pm by PTTG?? »
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Re: Finished IRC clients?
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2009, 10:09:10 pm »
I use chatzilla mostly. Good ol' firefox.
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Re: Finished IRC clients?
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2009, 10:19:41 pm »
Chatzilla.
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Re: Finished IRC clients?
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2009, 10:27:24 pm »
Well, that doesn't work either. Has the best interface I've seen yet, though.
Is it my router? My ISP?
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Re: Finished IRC clients?
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2009, 10:34:07 pm »
For me it has always been mIRC. Though I realise you probably can't use it if you're having trouble with other clients as it tends to be finicky...
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Re: Finished IRC clients?
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2009, 11:35:33 pm »
Using chatzilla to.

Find a good python IRC library and chat directly in the python shell? :p
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Re: Finished IRC clients?
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2009, 03:15:30 am »
mIrc
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Re: Finished IRC clients?
« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2009, 03:31:19 am »
vIRC always felt very... thin... to me. you know, just the chat, nothing else.
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Re: Finished IRC clients?
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2009, 05:23:24 pm »
Mibbit is excellent. But gives you less control than mIRC.
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