I'm looking for decent modern #irc clients. I used senpai for years, but got fed up of the lead dev's toxic behaviour.

I'm considering just maintaining my own fork (as I've been doing for a long time), but I'd rather not have to maintain yet another project and rely on something maintained by someone else.

Suggestions?

@whynothugo Back when I was active in the IRC, i always used #XChat. As far as I know a modern and completely open source fork of it is #HexChat.

https://hexchat.github.io/

Home – HexChat

HexChat, an open-source, cross-platform IRC client