Colloquy - 2.3

I have been using this for a long time almost every day. Great interface. Very stable and reliable. Fast and looks great.

I love this program, is it still being actively developed?

I DL'd this today to join an IRC channel my son helps run. He had no idea how to us eit, so I was on my own.
Opened it up and right away knew what I needed to enter and where. I was in the channel in a few minutes. What I found was it was not setup fto use scripts and I had to 1 find them, and 2 figure out how to install/use them.
Some I grabbed are Itunes, Weather, and sysinfo. iTunes works great, but does not auto enter the song that is playing. You have to type /itunes each time. Weather asked me the first time what my zip was, but did not ever show the weather when I typed /weather. Sysinfo will not bring up prefs, but at least does show the commands it supports, only if you know them. A trip to Script Editor showed me the commands and I copied a few down I wanted to use.

All in all a good, seemingly solid IRC client. Never quit, no one complained about my messages or the format they were coming in and the only complaint I have is the scripts... they need some serious attention.

After testing a good percentage of the other decrepid irc clients finallly this one actually works with SSL its a miracle :P

How tragic that basic features that are stock in mirc32 seem to be a challenge
for any other OS it would seem.

Timestamping and other such features would be nice.

And yes that baloon thingo is about as usefull as maralinga.

At least this mob are on the right track. Lots of work to be done but a dam
good start.

Also for the benefit of irc users everywhere can programmers/coders please please make it easier or in some cases possible to delete server lists
with a select and hold shift routine.

Or a novel idea make it optional or at the very least a nice easy txt file
because some of us don't want server lists how many km's long with servers that will never get visited.

Hmm theres no option to delete the servers folder in this version you can delete the idividual irc server details but not its original folder.

I'm sure theres more i could pick on but because this one actually connected to an ssl irc server with no BS thats a big improvement on the rest of the so called "competition" which in essence there is none because half of them
have no idea for inspiration i do suggest they take a look at mirc32
just so they have something to work by as a rough guide of what features
we would want.

As for paying money for these things no way not till they're upto spec
as currentlly NONE i've used are worthy.

If anyone knows of better GUI type clients for irc please do mention them
here as the mac community is in peril when choosing such software.

No wonder it's all gone intel it's our only hope in some cases of being able to use decent software on our machines in some cases :P

Unfortunately I deleted the old version and now 2.1 is randomly crashing in the the middle of a chat. I can't pinpoint what the deal is, I've tried simly letting it sit without saying anything, and it still crashes. The longest it has gone without crashing is 22 minutes, the shortest is 7 minutes or so.

I've been going back to Snak and I'm finding I can easily live without Colloquys eye candy. Snak is like a rock solid old faithful, where Colloquy is a mixed bag. You never know what youre gonna get with any particular release.

And, why isn't there a plain list of everything that has changed since last version ? That might help me look for things that could cause these crashes.