tiny is an IRC client.
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This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Clean UI: consecutive join/part/quit messages are shown in a single line, time stamps for a message is omitted if it’s the same as the message before. (inspired by irc-core)
- All mentions to the user are collected in a “mentions” tab, including server and channel information. “mentions” tab solves the problem of missing mentions to you in channels after hours of inactivity.
- Mentions to the user in a channel is highlighted (the channel tab is also highlighted in the tab list).
- Simple config file format for automatically connecting to servers, joining channels, registering the nickname etc.
- Nick tab-completion in channels.
- Nicks in channels are colored.
- Disconnect detection and automatic reconnects. You can keep tiny running on your laptop and it automatically reconnects after a sleep etc.
- Configurable key bindings inspired by terminal emulators and vim.
- Configurable colors.
- SASL authentication.
- Configurable desktop notifications on new messages.
- znc compatible.
- TLS support.
Website: github.com/osa1/tiny
Support:
Developer: Ömer Sinan Ağacan
License: MIT License
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