What is the Best IRC client?

[SlamBliss]

Hey guys, I was just stopping by to see if anyone could point me in the direction of the best irc client. I've tried mIRC and it is nice, but I was just wondering if there was anything better. Using pidgin really leaves alot to be desired in the command department and reminds me too much of an AOL chatroom (never really liked those damned things.)

So would anyone mind throwing a few program names at me? :P

[iago]

I personally like irssi.

[Newby]

On Windows, you really can't beat mIRC.

On Linux, XChat is really nice, and irssi is awesome too.

[Skywing]

Use SILC, not IRC.

(There is an irssi with silc injected into it.)

[rabbit]

mIRC and it is nice

I'm sorry, but you fail.  mIRC is the worst.  XChat and irssi are far better.

[deadly7]

I'm sorry, but you fail.  mIRC is the worst.  XChat and irssi are far better.

Most people (myself included) are too lazy to compile the binaries for Windows. :P

[Ergot]

I'm sorry, but you fail.  mIRC is the worst.  XChat and irssi are far better.

Most people (myself included) are too lazy to compile the binaries for Windows. :P

Most people (myself included) find readily available binaries for Windows. :P

[deadly7]

Most people (myself included) find readily available binaries for Windows. :P

Still too lazy. Find me some XChat Windows binaries plz.

[Ergot]

Look here: http://b0at.tx0.org/xchat/ or if you're really that damn lazy... click here: http://silverex.info/download/xchat-2.8.0-1.exe

[warz]

on windows, mirc is still better than xchat, in my opinion. i've never used irssi. silc would be nice if it were widely popular, but sadly it's not.

[Skywing]

Depends on what you are using IRC for, I suppose.  In my experience, there is a vastly better signal to noise ratio in terms of intelligent people on SILC.  Not to mention that it's designed for the paranoid from the ground up, unlike IRC, if you're concerned about that sort of thing.

[Newby]

I've never actually looked into SILC. What is it, exactly? What benefits are there to using SILC over IRC?

I'm content with using IRC, and would/will probably switch if/when SILC gains some momentum and people start moving over to it.

[rabbit]

I tried SILC but I had no idea what it was for or who was on it, so I stopped using it :X

[zorm]

I'm sorry, but you fail.  mIRC is the worst.  XChat and irssi are far better.

I'm not quite sure how you can say that. Have you actually used mIRC? Its got the best chat interface of any program I have used to date. Not to mention a powerful and easy to use script language.


That said I do use SILC and its kinda nice, I mean it makes it easy for me to harrass Skywing. I actually tried to get some friends to move over to it but the lack of a decent program for it kind of scared them away. So I'm on 1 SILC server and half a dozen or so IRC servers.

[Warrior]

I'm sorry, but you fail.  mIRC is the worst.  XChat and irssi are far better.

I'm not quite sure how you can say that. Have you actually used mIRC? Its got the best chat interface of any program I have used to date. Not to mention a powerful and easy to use script language.


That said I do use SILC and its kinda nice, I mean it makes it easy for me to harrass Skywing. I actually tried to get some friends to move over to it but the lack of a decent program for it kind of scared them away. So I'm on 1 SILC server and half a dozen or so IRC servers.

sup