I was told to get me into an irc channel, and so I downloaded mIRC yesterday after Years.

This client sucks and I want You to give me advice what to use if I want a less confusing solution.

I'm not interested in thousands of f*in gimmicks I don't need and I don't wanna pay $20, I just wanna communicate w my nex dudes.

Urmel aus dem Eis wrote:I was told to get me into an irc channel, and so I downloaded mIRC yesterday after Years.

This client sucks and I want You to give me advice what to use if I want a less confusing solution.

I'm not interested in thousands of f*in gimmicks I don't need and I don't wanna pay $20, I just wanna communicate w my nex dudes.

I have the same problem, these sucking extras... there are extras I wont use it in 1000 years! and 20$.... just wait, if the "trail" ends, then try a few things

When the trial ends you can use mirc as long as you want, only you have to wait 2 seconds till the continue button is enbaled.

Btw google tells you how to "buy" it

C.Brutail wrote:When the trial ends you can use mirc as long as you want, only you have to wait 2 seconds till the continue button is enbaled.

LOL! Is that a joke? rofl what a silly idea to pay 20$ against waiting 2 Sekunds xD

Urmel aus dem Eis wrote:I was told to get me into an irc channel, and so I downloaded mIRC yesterday after Years.

This client sucks and I want You to give me advice what to use if I want a less confusing solution.

I'm not interested in thousands of f*in gimmicks I don't need and I don't wanna pay $20, I just wanna communicate w my nex dudes.

Yes, mirc sucks bigtime
It is famous for it's security holes and not RFC conform.

My advice: use xchat (you can get a free windows build on http://www.silverex.org), imho the best gui irc client.
There is also a windoze version of kvirc(screenshot))

I use an anicent client called XiRCON, not been in development for several years, but does what need to be done, and its very, very simple. Has some problems sending files out if you are NATed thuogh. This is the simplest IRC client I've ever tried.

Pirch used to be good, but IMO it sucks now.

People tell good things about HydraIRC, but it seem bloated to me, not tried it a lot though.

i don tlike mIRC.

XiRCON screenshot:


Thechnically, what makes XiRCON brilliant is that it has a very versatile scripting system. It uses full featured TCL as its internat sctipting language.

sounds good

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thx!

tChr wrote:Thechnically, what makes XiRCON brilliant is that it has a very versatile scripting system. It uses full featured TCL as its internat sctipting language.

TCL? *urks*
xchat has TCL support, too iirc, but at least it also has perl script support
And my client (weechat) supports perl, python, ruby, lua and native C libs as plugins

KadaverJack wrote:

tChr wrote:Thechnically, what makes XiRCON brilliant is that it has a very versatile scripting system. It uses full featured TCL as its internat sctipting language.

TCL? *urks*
xchat has TCL support, too iirc, but at least it also has perl script support
And my client (weechat) supports perl, python, ruby, lua and native C libs as plugins

Better TCL than mIRCscript? And this is a windows client... and its less than 1MB IIRC

Urmel aus dem Eis wrote:I was told to get me into an irc channel, and so I downloaded mIRC yesterday after Years.

This client sucks and I want You to give me advice what to use if I want a less confusing solution.

I'm not interested in thousands of f*in gimmicks I don't need and I don't wanna pay $20, I just wanna communicate w my nex dudes.

Mirc hasnt really changed over the years . If you dont like Mirc then use another client . It like a lot of the older shareware programs are popular but have a low number of people actually paying to use it .

Their are freeware and opensource irc clients avail and you can use Mirc beyond 30 days in shareware mode.


Here is some commands to get you chatting

/nick randomnewbiesgoeshere
/server irc.ircname.domain
/join #channelname
Hi . Nexuiz is so cool , W00t ....

I use Konversation from SVN.

i use gaim for IRC..

Free irc clients for windows

IceChat http://www.icechat.net/
Bersirc http://bersirc.free2code.net/index.php/home/
XiRCON http://www.xircon.com/
Miranda http://www.miranda-im.org/

emacs and erc for the win.
Its just leet to chat with a 100mb monster

I use chatzilla, the firefox plug-in and it works great

As simple as the original irc stuff back in the 80's

anyone else tried that?

I have no idea what has changed in the last few years since i havent used irc in a long time....so something this simple is perfect for me

Great! Gonna make a try

Chatzilla is great because it is totally free and i can use it on the PC's, macs AND linux computers I use. The one-click install was great for me who never used IRC before.

Chatzilla is also included in the Mozilla Suite, or as it got dropped in favor of Firefox, the Suite is now developed under the name Seamonkey.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

The only problem I have with Seamonkey is that it's too much stuff. It's very similar to the netscape browser where everything is in one package, from mail to calander (not to forget the browser).
The reason I like everything separate is that I can load only the things I wanna use at the moment rather then the whole shabang, making it much quicker.

Back to the topic, ChatZilla really works fine unless you're one of those people that need a lot more options only commercial software can offer.

ok so mIRC sucks, thats why its one of the most popular IRC clients out there. You guys should stop talking like you know everything, mIRC is the best client out there, mainly because its so _EASY_ to make themes and scripts for it, ppl who are lazy can use the nnscript

www.nnscript.de

cyan wrote:ok so mIRC sucks, thats why its one of the most popular IRC clients out there.

Despite your sarcasm, popularity is often a sign of being bad, which it is for mIRC.

cyan wrote:ok so mIRC sucks, thats why its one of the most popular IRC clients out there. You guys should stop talking like you know everything, mIRC is the best client out there, mainly because its so _EASY_ to make themes and scripts for it, ppl who are lazy can use the nnscript

www.nnscript.de

yes.. easy the same way VB is easy.. but thats still not a good thing