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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by ReNo on Sat Mar 20th at 8:10pm 2004


Now I have my own computer with a permanent net connection I'm gonna get back into using IRC, and so I'm looking for a good frontend program. Obviously I have mIRC but what ones do other people use and recommend? [addsig]



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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by KoRnFlakes on Sat Mar 20th at 8:19pm 2004


only use mIRC myself tbh :/ [addsig]



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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by azelito on Sat Mar 20th at 8:20pm 2004


I use mIRC. Some idiots use trillian. Thats all I know of.

[addsig]




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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by Orpheus on Sat Mar 20th at 8:23pm 2004


i had it, but its time ran out, do they make a version not timedated?

or, can i get a *taboo* version off of someone?

[addsig]




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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by Monqui on Sat Mar 20th at 8:34pm 2004


Its timed, but you can still use it after the trial period.

mIRC, that is. [addsig]




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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by Orpheus on Sat Mar 20th at 8:41pm 2004


? posted by Monqui
Its timed, but you can still use it after the trial period.

mIRC, that is.

cool, thanx guys, thats better info than lep wants posted

[addsig]




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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by Edge Damodred on Sat Mar 20th at 8:46pm 2004


I'm one of those "idiots" that uses Trillian. Personally I can't stand mIRC. Hell I'd take the JavaIRC client over it. [addsig]



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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Sat Mar 20th at 8:56pm 2004


I don't mind mIRC, but I also use Trillian. I hate cluttering up my taskbar and system tray with 8 million things when I can do it in just one [addsig]



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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by ReNo on Sat Mar 20th at 9:15pm 2004


I've always used mIRC (except for way back, when i thought it 1337 to use non-standard things ) but on this computer it is proving exceptionally annoying, as if it is maximised, nothing else can be displayed over it, even if I bring them on top [addsig]



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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by scary_jeff on Sat Mar 20th at 9:24pm 2004


I use trillian. Works fine connects fast - I would only move to mIRC if I wanted to run a bunch of annoying mp3 scripts or away scripts (I think there are some for trillian anyway though).



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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by Kage_Prototype on Sat Mar 20th at 10:17pm 2004


Trillian, purely for the multiple chat networks. [addsig]



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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by Forceflow on Sat Mar 20th at 10:22pm 2004


- mIRC + nnscript

- Trillian (works great, don't understand why so called "idiots" shouldn't use this.)

- Chatzilla (In combination with a Mozilla-based browser like firebird, works great too)





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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by azelito on Sat Mar 20th at 10:23pm 2004


The people I know who are using trillian are idiots. So some idiots are using it.

[addsig]



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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by Monqui on Sat Mar 20th at 10:35pm 2004


I don't use Trillian because it refuses to run for more than a half hour or so- it always seems to crash on me. Always. [addsig]



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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by ReNo on Sun Mar 21st at 1:33am 2004


I used it in the past, but stopped. Problem with it was that it would get disconnected from MSN every couple of minutes, thereby defeating the point of having multiple messaging programs in once since MSN was my main one. It seemed ok for IRC, but not as nice as mIRC. That could perhaps be attributed to my familiarity with the latter however. [addsig]



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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by Gorbachev on Sun Mar 21st at 2:35am 2004


? posted by ReNo
I used it in the past, but stopped. Problem with it was that it would get disconnected from MSN every couple of minutes, thereby defeating the point of having multiple messaging programs in once since MSN was my main one. It seemed ok for IRC, but not as nice as mIRC. That could perhaps be attributed to my familiarity with the latter however.

Long ago I used Trillian, but there are certain things it cannot do...and those happen to be the functions I need. Voice and video chat were a bugger, and lots of little things. It had lots of neat features too, but since I don't use AOL or ICQ anymore either I don't need Trill.

[addsig]




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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by fraggard on Sun Mar 21st at 3:18am 2004


Usually use mIRC, but sometimes its GAIM.



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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by Hornpipe2 on Sun Mar 21st at 5:23am 2004


mIRC is great, especially when you get a nice /play setup to show a bunch of 8-bit Nintendo sprites in the channel.

Also, I wrote a lot of scripts once to unban myself, kickban others, etc. I don't know much about the scripting features of Trillian, are they any good?

EDIT: DesPlesda has the right idea though. [addsig]




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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by DesPlesda on Sun Mar 21st at 5:30am 2004


I use Gaim for IM, and X-Chat for IRC.



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Re: IRC Frontends
Posted by Monqui on Sun Mar 21st at 5:56am 2004


Yeah, I use GAIM for the most part, but I still can't connect in to Yahoo for some reason...

Everything else works just fine, though. [addsig]





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