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What's a good FOSS IRC Client? (lemmy.ml)

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I see a lot of options on Fdroid. Which one do you guys like the most?

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[–] xoggy@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used both for years but always preferred weechat with the nicklist enabled and at the top, so that it didn't break urls or selecting multi-line text. Although the nicklist feature is moot for huge irc channels the ui and user experience is overall better with weechat in my opinion.

[–] kmacmartin@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

You can also use weechat as a bouncer, and it works even better with its own clients which can sync chat history rather than receiving it in a dump. The android client is fantastic in that respect.

The plugin ecosystem is also great. I have a plugin that pushes notifications for PMs and mentions to my gotify server, alerting me on my phone without having to drain its batteries staying connected.