irssi
The client of the future (by irssi)
smuxi
Smuxi is an user-friendly and free IRC client for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X based on GNOME / GTK+ (by meebey)
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| irssi | smuxi | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 2 | |
| 2,799 | 169 | |
| 1.0% | - | |
| 7.7 | 7.2 | |
| 14 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| C | C# | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
irssi
Posts with mentions or reviews of irssi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-11.
- Open source P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor and IPFS
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Is there anyone still maintaining a native IRC client for macOS?
If you don't mind terminal clients, irssi is still regularly updated (most recent version was released in March of this year). It's available with homebrew.
- mIRC i början av 2000?
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[herbstluftwm] a breath of fresh wm
irc client: irssi
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Best (easiest) way to crawl an IRC channel?
I found Irssi which apperantly has the capability to do this but the configuration is more complex than I hoped. While my experiments haven't concluded yet, is anybody aware of an easy to use IRC client that I can use to crawl the messages in an IRC channel?
- Karl Lehenbauer, “Tcl: The Tool Command Language – Lisp for the Masses”
- I'm way out of the loop - What replaced freenode?
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clionly.host - A free OpenBSD Shell account for anyone with an ecdsa-sk or ed25519-sk SSH key
An IRC bouncer or client
- Irssi does not take a political stance
- [Hobby Scuffles] Week of May 23, 2021
smuxi
Posts with mentions or reviews of smuxi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-27.
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Is there anyone still maintaining a native IRC client for macOS?
Smuxi is mainly a Linux client but there is a Mac version. The news page is a bit outdated... but the Github page shows the latest release was just 3 months ago.
- Smuxi – An Open Source Client IRC, Twitter, XMPP, Campfire, JabbR
What are some alternatives?
When comparing irssi and smuxi you can also consider the following projects:
Weechat - The extensible chat client.
dino - Modern XMPP ("Jabber") Chat Client using GTK+/Vala
hexchat - GTK+ IRC client
halloy - IRC application written in Rust
solo1 - Solo 1 firmware in C
Textual - Textual is an IRC client for OS X
twittered - Twitter API client for Java developers
securitytxt.org - Static website for security.txt.
SparkleShare - Share and collaborate by syncing with any Git repository instantly. Linux, macOS, and Windows.
modern-irc - A useful overview and reference to the IRC client protocol as it is implemented today.
lucerne - A Twitter reader designed for learning from the Twittersphere, built with Ink and Torus