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irssi

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  Analyzed 6 days ago

Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins.

71.4K lines of code

21 current contributors

14 days since last commit

510 users on Open Hub

Moderate Activity
4.49306
   
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: gpl
Tags chat chatting client internet_relay_chat irc

X-Chat

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  Analyzed 4 days ago

X-Chat is a fully-featured graphical IRC client using the GTK toolkit. It can be compiled to use GNOME and Perl scripting.

63.5K lines of code

0 current contributors

over 9 years since last commit

352 users on Open Hub

Inactive
4.11905
   
1 Review
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: gpl
Tags chat chatting client fax hosting im internet internet_relay_chat irc linux technology tools 3 more...

Kopete

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Claimed by KDE Analyzed 3 days ago

Kopete is a flexible and extendable multiple protocol instant messaging system designed as a plugin-based system. All protocols are plugins and allow modular installation, configuration, and usage without the main application knowing anything about the plugin being loaded. The goal of Kopete is to ... [More] provide users with a standard and easy to use interface between all of their instant messaging systems, but at the same time also providing developers with the ease of writing plugins to support a new protocol. The core Kopete development team provides a handful of plugins that most users can use, in addition to templates for new developers to base a plugin on. [Less]

405K lines of code

10 current contributors

6 days since last commit

269 users on Open Hub

Moderate Activity
4.09821
   
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in C++
Licenses: gpl
Tags application bonjour chat client communication gadu-gadu groupwise icq im instant_messaging internet_relay_chat irc 8 more...

Colloquy

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  Analyzed 4 days ago

Traditionally, chat clients on the Mac have been anything but glamorous. Colloquy is an advanced IRC, SILC & ICB client which aims to fill this void. By adhering to Mac OS X interface conventions, Colloquy has the look and feel of a quality Mac application.

148K lines of code

3 current contributors

over 1 year since last commit

153 users on Open Hub

Very Low Activity
3.875
   
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in Objective-C
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause, gpl
Tags bsd chat chatapplication chatclient chat_core chatprogram chatroom chatting dcc gpl icb internet_relay_chat 21 more...

WeeChat

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  Analyzed 5 days ago

WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a fast and light chat client for many operating systems. Everything can be done with a keyboard, it is customizable and extensible with scripts. It is compliant with RFCs 1459, 2810, 2811, 2812, 2813.

266K lines of code

21 current contributors

5 days since last commit

45 users on Open Hub

High Activity
4.58824
   
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: gpl3_or_l...
Tags c chat chatting client free internet_relay_chat irc lua modular perl python ruby 2 more...

ZNC

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  Analyzed 4 days ago

ZNC is an IRC bouncer with many advanced features like detaching, multiple users, per channel playback buffer, SSL, IPv6, transparent DCC bouncing, and c++ module support to name a few.

59.1K lines of code

15 current contributors

18 days since last commit

34 users on Open Hub

Moderate Activity
4.72727
   
2 Reviews
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Mostly written in C++
Licenses: apache_2
Tags bnc bncs bouncer c++ chat chatbridge chatlog chatroom chatting highavailability internet_relay_chat irc 8 more...

KVIrc

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  Analyzed 6 days ago

KVIrc is a free portable IRC client based on the excellent Qt GUI toolkit. KVIrc is being written by Szymon Stefanek and the KVIrc Development Team with the contribution of many IRC addicted developers around the world.

238K lines of code

12 current contributors

7 months since last commit

31 users on Open Hub

Very Low Activity
4.58824
   
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in C++
Licenses: gpl
Tags avatar c++ chat chatting communication cross-platform dcc internet_relay_chat ipv6 irc ircclient linux 8 more...

InspIRCd

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  Analyzed about 3 years ago

InspIRCd is a modular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server written in C++ for Linux, BSD, Windows and Mac OS X systems which was created from scratch to be stable, modern and lightweight. As InspIRCd is one of the few IRC servers written from scratch, it avoids a number of design flaws and ... [More] performance issues that plague other more established projects, such as UnrealIRCd, while providing the same level of feature parity. InspIRCd is one of only a few IRC servers to provide a tunable number of features through the use of an advanced but well documented module system. By keeping core functionality to a minimum we hope to increase the stability, security and speed of InspIRCd while also making it customisable to the needs of many different users. [Less]

113K lines of code

13 current contributors

about 3 years since last commit

22 users on Open Hub

Activity Not Available
4.86667
   
3 Reviews
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Mostly written in C++
Licenses: GNU_Gener...
Tags chat chatting internet internet_relay_chat irc ircd linux mac_os_x mirc networking osx services 4 more...

UnrealIRCd

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  Analyzed 4 months ago

UnrealIRCd is an Open Source IRC Server, serving thousands of networks since 1999. It runs on Linux, OS X and Windows and is currently the most widely deployed IRCd with a market share of 43%. UnrealIRCd is a highly advanced IRCd with a strong focus on modularity, security, an advanced and highly ... [More] configurable configuration file. Key features include SSL, cloaking, its advanced anti-flood and anti-spam systems, swear filtering and module support. We are also particularly proud on our extensive online documentation. [Less]

286K lines of code

0 current contributors

4 months since last commit

17 users on Open Hub

Activity Not Available
3.78571
   
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: gpl
Tags chat chatting cross-platform daemon internet_relay_chat irc ircd linux modular server unix win32 1 more...

ekg2

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  Analyzed 5 days ago

Plugin based multi-IM communicator. ncurses or gtk2 (in progress) based GUI. Support for different protocols: irc, jabber (including gmail), gg (gadu-gadu largest polish IM), tlen, nntp (read only).

87.4K lines of code

1 current contributors

almost 4 years since last commit

14 users on Open Hub

Inactive
4.42857
   
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: gpl
Tags application bindings c chatting communication console gadu-gadu gmail gtalk gtk2 im instant_messaging 16 more...