Textual
So my IRC client of the past, uh, six or seven years has been Colloquy, because it was the first thing I found when I typed "mac IRC client" into Google at some point, but I've never really been very happy with it. And also it hasn't been updated for years, so the chance of it getting features that I want is slim. But, you know, it was free, inertia is powerful, blah blah blah.
Today I decided to try out Textual, and, surprise, it has basically every feature I have ever wanted! /away and /back commands! Individual colors on usernames! (If you don't like the color it randomly assigns you, you can change it; I will probably make myself not hot pink sometime soon.) It will badge the app icon with unread messages in a channel and not just private messages, so I no longer have to carefully keep the edge of my IRC client window visible at all times so I can see if the timestamps have changed to determine whether people are talking! The logfiles are easily accessible and human-readable and I probably no longer have to copy them into a separate program just to read them! It doesn't turn all my quotes into smartquotes for no reason! I can even /slap people with trouts just like all the cool kids!
(It occasionally likes to eat my scrollback and I'm not quite sure why that's happening, but at least it's still in the logs.)
Anyway, if you have a Mac and you want an actual IRC client with actual IRC client features, I recommend Textual. I think it's $6. It's under active development, too.
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Today I decided to try out Textual, and, surprise, it has basically every feature I have ever wanted! /away and /back commands! Individual colors on usernames! (If you don't like the color it randomly assigns you, you can change it; I will probably make myself not hot pink sometime soon.) It will badge the app icon with unread messages in a channel and not just private messages, so I no longer have to carefully keep the edge of my IRC client window visible at all times so I can see if the timestamps have changed to determine whether people are talking! The logfiles are easily accessible and human-readable and I probably no longer have to copy them into a separate program just to read them! It doesn't turn all my quotes into smartquotes for no reason! I can even /slap people with trouts just like all the cool kids!
(It occasionally likes to eat my scrollback and I'm not quite sure why that's happening, but at least it's still in the logs.)
Anyway, if you have a Mac and you want an actual IRC client with actual IRC client features, I recommend Textual. I think it's $6. It's under active development, too.
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