Originally created by Jason Hamilton as an aid for help
channels to answer repeated questions from its virtually
unlimited database, it has became a very popular talking
robot in a generic sense, being used all over IRC networks
for different purposes and in 18 languages. Data can be
added to it and managed dynamically online or edited in
its database files offline.
Eggdrop is the world's most popular open source Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bot.
Originally created by Robey Pointer in December 1993, it has spawned an almost
cult like following of users. It is a feature rich program designed to be
easily used and expanded upon (using Tcl scripting) by both novice and
advanced IRC users on a variety of hardware and software platforms.
Eggdrop is the world's most popular open source Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bot.
Originally created by Robey Pointer in December 1993, it has spawned an almost
cult like following of users. It is a feature rich program designed to be
easily used and expanded upon (using Tcl scripting) by both novice and
advanced IRC users on a variety of hardware and software platforms.
Irssi is a modular IRC client that currently has only text mode user
interface, but 80-90% of the code isn't text mode specific, so other UIs could
be created pretty easily. Also, Irssi isn't really even IRC specific anymore,
there's already a working SILC module available. Support for other protocols
like ICQ could be created some day too.
KVIrc is a free portable IRC client based on the Qt GUI toolkit.
EPIC4 is a new direction in ircII development. No longer is EPIC 100%
backwards compatible with ircII, but instead those things where
compatibility is undesirable have been found and fixed. No gratuitous
incompatibilities have been added, but lots of new code has been added to
make EPIC the best ircII client available.
EPIC no longer shares any file names with ircII, so they should happily
co-exist.
EPIC5 is the 5th generation of the Enhanced Programmable ircII Client.
No longer is EPIC 100% backwards compatible with ircII, but instead those
things where compatibility is undesirable have been found and fixed. No
gratuitous incompatibilities have been added, but lots of new code has been
added to make EPIC one of the best ircII clients available.
EPIC no longer shares any file names with ircII, so they should happily
co-exist.
Due to it's minimalist approach it is highly recommended you use a script
with EPIC.
Gruftistats is a program which reads your IRC logs and turns them into
a web page. This has a mixture of statistics (like who talked most),
and amusing facts (like who got kicked most).
It supports a variety of log formats already, and can be extended to
support other log formats by writing a spec file describing the
format.
ircproxy is an advanced multi-user IRC bouncer written in C with IPv6 and
SSL support. It can proxy simultaneous users at the same time to different
IRC servers. The IRC connection can stay connected to IRC when the IRC
client disconnects, the user can then later reattach to the same IRC
connection.
Private messages and channel activity can an be logged when no IRC clients
are attached. You can then see what you have been missing while you're
offline. It is also possible to attach multiple IRC clients on the same
IRC connection. This is useful if you want to be connected from home and
work at the same time without cloning.
miau is a fully featured easy to use IRC-bouncer that can keep your nick
even when you disconnect.
Additionally, miau can set you away automatically when you disconnect and
auto-op (or auto-voice) people. While you're disconnected, miau can also log
everything and/or pipe private messages to an external program. And when you
connect miau again, miau can replay some of the old messages so that you know
what's going on.