{"id":27153,"date":"2016-12-20T01:14:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T23:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=27153"},"modified":"2016-12-20T01:14:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T23:14:44","slug":"hexchat-irc-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/20\/hexchat-irc-client\/","title":{"rendered":"HexChat IRC Client"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/HexChat.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"27154\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/20\/hexchat-irc-client\/hexchat\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/HexChat.png?fit=807%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"807,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"HexChat\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/HexChat.png?fit=660%2C589&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-27154\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/HexChat-500x446.png?resize=500%2C446&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/HexChat.png?resize=500%2C446&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/HexChat.png?resize=768%2C685&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/HexChat.png?w=807&amp;ssl=1 807w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, apparently I&#8217;ve been leaving under a rock for the last few years. \u00a0When it comes down to IRC clients, I&#8217;ve been mostly using <a href=\"http:\/\/xchat.org\/\">XChat<\/a>. \u00a0Turns out, XChat has been abandoned for years, and it&#8217;s still around mostly because Linux distributions care so much about it that they patch it and ship it.<\/p>\n<p>As with anything in the Linux world, there are plenty of alternatives. \u00a0And one of them was right under my nose all these years &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/hexchat.github.io\/\">HexChat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HexChat is an IRC client based on XChat, but unlike XChat it\u2019s completely free for both Windows and Unix-like systems. 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