What IRC client do you use?

I have a bunch of Linux VPS servers and run Irssi on one of them. Combined with the GNU Screen program you can access this permanently connected IRC session from wherever you are. All you need is an SSH client, such as Putty, to connect to it.

Xchat on Ubuntu. You might be interested in dropping by #startups on the freenode network - some of us hang out there.

I have Limechat on Mac &#38; iPhone, which both connect to znc - so I'm "always connected".<p>If someone mentions my name while I'm logged into znc, then znc-notifo pushes a message to notifo (which lets all my devices know.<p>I'm pretty happy with it.

irssi with screen (<a href="http://irssi.org/" rel="nofollow">http://irssi.org/</a>)

Linkinus for OS X. It is great, fast, clean, looks beautiful. Soon should have node.js scripting support as well.<p><a href="http://www.linkinus.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.linkinus.com</a>

Silverex[1] is what I used to use back on windows. Nowadays, irssi with screen running on a server.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.silverex.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.silverex.org/</a>

If you're running Windows, then I guess the best option would be mIRC.<p><a href="http://www.mirc.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mirc.com/</a>

Colloquay on mac, but I prefer mIRC for windows.

<a href="http://code.google.com/p/xchat-wdk/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/xchat-wdk/</a>

ERC in Emacs

I have a server placed on a co-location where i use GNU Screen and Weechat for irc

<a href="http://www.pidgin.im/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pidgin.im/</a>

<a href="http://irccloud.com" rel="nofollow">http://irccloud.com</a>

macirssi<p>If push came to shove i would actually probably look up xIRCon for Windows, if i had to use Windows (yes even though xIRCon was already abandonware in 1999, eat that mIRC).

irssi on *nix, Colloquy on iPhone.

Mibbit!!!