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?
This is Bull shit!! Colloquy sucks!!!