January 6th, 2009 at 10:14 pm

It’s a nice client, but probably not the best. I’m just to lazy to switch.

Anyway, no need to download this, there is a FREE build available, just google for SILVEREX!

January 6th, 2009 at 11:19 pm

indeed, this is bloody open source.
why the F crack this :S

January 7th, 2009 at 12:37 am

First of all, I think mIRC is much better than this.

X-Chat program is open source for Linux and is suposed to be open source for Windows also. The trick is that the author says he wants money if you want to get the program already compiled. If you don’t want to pay for it, you can download the source code and compile it for your own. Or you can also download a public build mantained by SILVEREX (as previously said), but that "unofficial" build is not updated very often.
In my opinion, it’s a strange decission by the authors, as if I have to pay for a Windows IRC client I would only think of mIRC, as it’s a LOT better than X-Chat or any IRC client out there.
So the only thing good in X-Chat (that it was free) is now lost. So I will never use it (or even think about using it) again.

salutes

January 7th, 2009 at 1:16 am

As said, x-chat is free under linux. for windows, you have the source code so you could compile it or if don’t want to bother, google! There are people out there who have compiled it for windows so imo, thanks are due to the author.

January 7th, 2009 at 2:19 am

the paid version is alot smaller and cleaner, 1mb vs 7-8mb

January 7th, 2009 at 3:48 am

Forget it, i took a look at xchat’s webpage and windows binaries aren’t free anymore…So i take that back.

January 7th, 2009 at 1:30 pm

What’s up with the anti-spam code number being 666 all the time?

oh, and thanks for xchat

January 7th, 2009 at 9:47 pm

There are already people doing that for us, anyway i use weechat and donate to that project.