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Made this for the pixel pickup website, but I’d imagine a lot of people will find it useful regardless:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ7fodCNI_o

Bassically a walk through on setting up XChat, how to use IRC, and how to get a Q auth set up. Didn’t touch on performs, but it’s pretty simple and I’ll make another one for that if people want.

good work skyride.

another fork is http://xchat-wdk.org/ xchat-wdk btw.

I’m using the WDK fork as well, as xchat2 or YChat don’t seem to get updated anymore.

great IRC Client, everyone on windows should give it a try, especially when you’re running a non-licensed version of mIRC atm.

Quoted from Dav1dd

Firefox addon chatzilla is also very easy to use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chatzilla/

Great video for people new to irc!

Ye Chatzilla’s pretty good too.

I mean honestly, it’s frustrating that people suggest mIRC so much. It quite possibly the straight up most overly-complicated IRC client to use.

Quoted from AnimaL

mirc is fine if you havnt lost ability to read… even 10yo 3rd worldie kids can master that app

but good thing you wrote about alternatives :]

mIRC is awful. I didn’t say you CAN’T learn it, but it is straight up the worst IRC client there is. I mean like, I’m not even someone who usually gives a fuck about stuff like web browsers, OS’s, etc,,, 90% of them do the job totally fine and its mostly personal preference, but mIRC is literally the Internet Explorer of IRC clients. You could pick any random alternative and they’re all significantly better.

Quoted from Bonkers

Also is there anyway to get auto auth? i can seem to figure it out :D

Yep, On the Network List, right click on Quakenet -> Edit. Then in box “Connect Command”, copy paste this: “msg [email protected] AUTH username password”. That will automatically auth you when you connect. You can also add “Favourite channels” which will make you auto join those channels on connect, but I didn’t touch on that in the video, forgot to. >:(

Also, you asked for the wallpaper on youtube comments, its not letting me reply for some reason so here’s what I put.

@BoooooonkerS

http://px2.voodoostats.com/otherstuff/badlandsmidwallpaper.png :D

It’s a still I made ages from this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOLpT10lpyk

Quoted from Skyride

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mIRC is awful in my opinion

Fixed that for you. Please stop sprouting this bullshit; mirc is equally confusing as any other client when you’re new to irc. Beyond that, it’s perfectly perfect.

Quoted from Spike Himself

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Fixed that for you. Please stop sprouting this bullshit; mirc is equally confusing as any other client when you’re new to irc. Beyond that, it’s perfectly perfect.

The thing is though, it’s not bullshit. mIRC obfuscates everything for absolutely no reason at all, and has about a million other functions that I don’t think anyone even uses, so they just end up being buttons sitting all over the place that make it look complicated.

Pretty much every IRC client (other than irssi) is easier to use than mIRC simply because they are (superficially at least) very basic and straight forward. When you present someone with a window that has a shitload of text in one area, ~10-15 buttons along the top and a bunch of dropdown windows, and a lot of the options you’d need to change are hidden in various submenu’s, its pretty off putting, and let’s not even get started on nnscript (which aside from making it look nicer, I can’t help but think “what percentage of users actually make use of any of these additional features”). Compare this to XChat where there is just a small window where the most prominent 2 things are a list of IRC networks, and a great big button that says “connect”, and all the options you’d need to change are either on that window, or another one that you open by clicking a big button that says “edit”, and you can see what I’m getting at. Even compared to Quakenet webIRC where it is literally just a case of typing in a nickname and hitting connect.

Honestly I can’t even be arsed arguing it because it’s such an anal debate and the differences are pretty small, but it’s enough to be the difference between someone going “hey I think i’ll try this out” and “oh this looks really complicated”. Not even going to make another post on it, it’s not a case of “well that’s just your opinion”, you can pretty tangibly show it’s more complicated, it just isn’t worth the effort to prove it.