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Comment by jbergstroem | Hacker News Reader

A combo I recently moved to – after using 5+ years irssi, 5+ years weechat – is the graphical client Textual[1] (OS X only) backed by znc. It's smart enough to do replaying backlog and similar for you.

I also really admire their licensing strategy. The entire project is open source; build it yourself or pay us to do it (then we'll throw in support as well)[2].

[1] http://www.codeux.com/textual/

[2] https://github.com/codeux/textual

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In the copy on your front-page, I would say "Extendable" or "Extensible" instead of "Expandable" here:

  Expandable using scripts written in AppleScript, Ruby,
  Python, Perl, PHP, and Objective-C.

It took me a second to figure out what you meant when I first read it. I initially read it in more of a Minimize/Expand sense.

[Though maybe I'm just being pedantic.]

Agreed, Textual is easily the most used app I'm using on my Mac and together with ZNC and Palaver[1] as iOS client (with push) I couldn't be happier.

[1] http://palaverapp.com/

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