Circe, because why would you ever want to leave Emacs

Only tried issri on CLI Linux… Hexchat on windows I couldn’t eve get to connect lol. What are people using to keep IRC open, so you can look back on chats? Pretty new to it

tmux + weechat. Also connect to it via weechat-android on my phone. Great for getting pings and quick replies while not at the desktop.

I'm curious what keeps you on IRC and stops you migrating to Matrix?

irssi or hexchat (earlier xchat) since forever. I’m one of the weird people that even paid for xchat on Windows ages ago.

I’ve never liked the clients that were just an extension in something else, like Pidgin.

I'm using both, irssi and quassel.

I use hexchat in combination with znc

I use The Lounge, it's a self hosted server/bouncer that you use through a web UI. That makes it so I can stay online 24/7, and can access IRC from any device including my phone. It even supports push notifications, so when someone pings me on IRC, I get notified on my phone and can go open up the client and look at my chats. It's pretty good!

Not as lightweight as a terminal client, but keeping a Firefox tab open for it isn't that memory hungry. Negligible when you have dozens of tabs open and a few Electron apps anyway.