IRC Client of the Year
 

A new category this year.

--jeremy

I have been using irssi for years and see no reason to stop.

xchat. But I am not a heavy user.

ircII

weechat

Thank Jeremy, noce to see thos as a category. Had to vote XChat -- does the job nicely.

irssi

Hi Jeremy,

when chatting nowadays, I use KVIrc. Can You add it, please?

Kind regards,
mdbuerkle

xchat

I really like Konversation these days. The defaults are good, it supports proportional fonts, and it actually saves when you change things in the config UI and hit 'apply'.

I'll second KVIrc.

KVIrc has been added.

--jeremy

irssi w/Screen from remote shell via SSh...

This.

Unless I'm on a Windows machine I don't regularly use, and I only need to jump in an IRC channel real quick. Then I lean towards HexChat. Otherwise, irssi gets my vote.

Thanks to those mentioning irssi -- I had used a command-line client which was overly complex for my needs and seemed tricky to set up but I just installed irssi and it just works.
I may have to vote for it next year.