Quassel IRC

Name: Quassel IRC
Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Quassel IRC is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client based on the Qt5 framework. Distributed means that one (or multiple) client(s) can attach to and detach f...

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What is Quassel IRC?

Quassel IRC is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client based on the Qt5 framework. Distributed means that one (or multiple) client(s) can attach to and detach from a central core that stays permanently online -- much like the popular combination of screen and a text-based IRC client such as WeeChat, and similar to (but much more featureful than) so-called BNCs.

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Developed byThe Quassel IRC Team
LicensingOpen Source and Free product.
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RatingAverage rating of 3.5
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Seth

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Top positive comment• ago

After using Textual on the Mac for a while, when I had to switch back to using Windows for work purposes I was unimpressed with the substandard and outdated IRC gui app offerings until I discovered Quassel.

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jcrben

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Review• ago

I like this project in theory: as an open-source Qt project, it is approachably hackable and cross-platform. But when I went to install it on my OSX Yosemite laptop, it started crashing soon after I did a little configuration; I didn't bother to report a bug given there's already reports of OSX issues. Plus, I had to search and find a bug/feature request to figure out how to access the channel list, so its UI is not terribly intuitive. Judging from Github, it looks like Hexchat has more traction but there are also reports of stability issues.

[Edited by jcrben, June 08]

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monkeybear

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I may have dismissed this too quickly, but I think you have to sign up for an account at quassel-irc.org before being able to connect to IRC. Not happening. Too bad, it looked like a decent interface. I recommend LimeChat...

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TheRaven7

I use Quassel and haven't had to sign up for any account with them.

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Pacien

Quassel is self-hosted (client+core), no registration on any third-party service is necessary nor possible. (Of course you may register on IRC networks you connect to.)