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Ask HN: Best IRC client for Mac?

3 points by josh-wrale ↗ HN
I found an old thread on this[1], but it's from five years ago. Anything new and/or better out there now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=642193

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itg
I use Limechat
jachee
Call me old-school:

iTerm2 + SSH to my VPS + screen + irssi

It's my client for ALL my OSes, and it's consistent/persistent across them. :)

citruspi
I normally use weechat on a server for a persistent connection, but I've been playing around with ZNC on the server and Textual on my local machine.

Of the two, I've had a better experience with weechat.

SamReidHughes
It's Textual, unless somebody is willing to testify otherwise. Textual is infinitely better than LimeChat, in particular. It's probably better than Colloquy, if only because I tried Colloquy but now I'm using Textual. XChat Aqua is buggy and broken.
irpwnu2
What is it about Textual that makes it better than others?
SamReidHughes
LimeChat is basically a UI disaster. I ended up hating it whenever I wanted to search the comment history. I have never been annoyed by Textual. It's just nice. I haven't used Colloquy recently enough to remember, but there was something about it that made me switch away. XChat Aqua would be missing random characters from users' names in the user list.
irpwnu2
Yeah that definitely sounds like a major problem.
bgar
I run znc on my server and connect to it using weechat from my mba.
ncr0
Textual is really good. Colloquy can bridge session to mobile client. Irssi is pr0 and 1337