Colloquy: IRC For The Next Generation
Some think that IRC is a long dead technology. Some say its time has come and passed. Colloquy says no. Colloquy is a stylish IRC client that brings back IRC from the dark ages with a stylish interface and lots of great features including Growl support.
Colloquy starts you off with a small connections window that allows you to connect to any IRC server you want. If you aren’t sure what you want, Colloquy has some suggestions in a drop-down menu. Once connected, you have to join a room. Colloquy gives you a searchable list of rooms right at your disposal.
Now that you’re in a room, Colloquy gets you chatting. With your selection of window styles ranging from a nice, simple style, to an “iChatesque� look, to old fashioned look from the IRC clients of old.
With Colloquy, you can chat on multiple rooms on multiple servers. You can use emoticons and Colloquy is open-source and has plug-in support. Colloquy even allows you to have a buddy list of other chatters so you can find out when they’re on and message them directly.
If it would just support Socks5 proxies … then I could finally leave X-Chat behind.
I love colloquoy! I’ve been using it for about half a year and it’s never failed me.
use it all the time
Colloquy was one of the first apps I installed when I got my Mac and I’m so happy that I did. It amazes me that a free application can be so much better than mIRC on the PC, which is $30.
This is an amazing IRC client. One of the few apps good enough to be placed in my dock.
I started using X-Chat Aqua precisely because it supports SOCKS proxies:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xchataqua/
And it has actual growl support too, not just the “New Activity in Channel” notifications that colloquy uses.
Colloquy isn’t a bad app, it just doesn’t have the features I was looking for.
For terminal use I highly recommend Irssi (http://www.irssi.org) which can be installed with Darwin Ports (http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/)
Can someone tell me what the “Interface” tab in “Options” does exactly?
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I looked at the colloquy website. They call channels “chatrooms”. There are no ‘chat rooms” on irc, there are channels. Someone is stuck in AOL think! How could I want a client when the creators don’t know or respect irc?