It’s time for the irregular EmacsChannel ChatClient test again!
89 irssi 57 ERC 55 xchat 13 rcirc 9 bip 6 Konversation 5 mIRC 5 Colloquy 5 Purple 4 WeeChat 3 LimeChat 2 CL 2 Riece 1 OMG 1 wtf 1 phooie 1 n 1 telnet 1 Quassel 1 schurger 1 HydraIRC 1 conspire 1 epic4 1 KVIrc 1 Gaim 1 PieSpy 1 Circe 1 Microsoft 1 ctrlproxy 1 Snak 1 BitchX 1 LostIRC 1 Miranda ---- 275 total
IrcClientSurvey says how I produced the list.
Irssi, ERC, and XChat continue dominating the list. I think irssi remains popular because people keep it running inside GNU screen sessions.
“Purple” seems to refer to libpurple which is used by Pidgin & Gaim.
Previous issues: 2007-12-21. Next survey: 2009-04-02.
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