I found an old thread on this[1], but it's from five years ago. Anything new and/or better out there now?<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=642193
Because links are hard.<p>LimeChat: <a href="http://limechat.net/mac/" rel="nofollow">http://limechat.net/mac/</a><p>Textual: <a href="http://www.codeux.com/textual/" rel="nofollow">http://www.codeux.com/textual/</a><p>Colloquy: <a href="http://colloquy.info/" rel="nofollow">http://colloquy.info/</a><p>WeeChat: <a href="http://weechat.org/" rel="nofollow">http://weechat.org/</a><p>IRCCloud: <a href="https://irccloud.com" rel="nofollow">https://irccloud.com</a> (web-based, invite/beta)<p>I've been using Colloquy, but I'm open to trying other apps.
Call me old-school:<p>iTerm2 + SSH to my VPS + screen + irssi<p>It's my client for <i>ALL</i> my OSes, and it's consistent/persistent across them. :)
It's Textual, unless somebody is willing to testify otherwise. Textual is infinitely better than LimeChat, in particular. It's probably better than Colloquy, if only because I tried Colloquy but now I'm using Textual. XChat Aqua is buggy and broken.
I normally use weechat on a server for a persistent connection, but I've been playing around with ZNC on the server and Textual on my local machine.<p>Of the two, I've had a better experience with weechat.