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When comparing IRSSI vs The Lounge, the Slant community recommends IRSSI for most people. In the question“What are the best IRC clients for Windows?” IRSSI is ranked 8th while The Lounge is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose IRSSI is:
Screen multiplexing and remote connection options with screen or tmux.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Terminal-based
Screen multiplexing and remote connection options with screen or tmux.
Pro Themes
Allows the modification of IRSSI's look and feel.
Pro Free and open-source
Pro Quick and easy setup
3 or 4 commands and you're ready to chat with all your old friends.
Pro Perl scripting
Allows the user to create and use perl scripts to perform actions.
Pro Command line outputs can be sent to a channel or message
/exec -o figlet "Slant.co"
Pro Easy logging
Pro Persistent connection
Pro Has a plugin for encrypted communications
Pro Free
Pro Highly maintained
You can see the activity here. For example 62 pull requests were merged from 2018-02-17 to 2018-02-24.
Pro Hosted on the web
Always up.
Cons
Con No GUI
Actually a plus for some, lower memory overhead.
Con Gives little direction upfront
Actually, Irssi.org has it's own GREAT documentation for new irssi users. Inline /help options are pretty well documented.
Con Cryptic configuration files
Con Server, not an application
This is a server, not an application, so there's that extra bit of overhead.
Con Uses NodeJS
Javascript...
