XChat Azure App Reviews

The two updates prior to this one made this app very crashy for me. I put up with it because Ive been using X-Chat in various forms since the 90s. Really glad to see a native port to OS X. Anyhow, this update has fixed all my crashing issues, and the slow response of the GUI itself. Couldnt be happier. Porting things like this for free is a labor of love, so thanks for the great work. The only thing I could ask for is integration with Notification Center in 10.8, otherwise Im pretty happy with it as-is.

The last update does not seem to have caused any major issues but there are some slight annoyances. The first is that the preferences and logs were moved and I had a hard time finding them. The second is that the channels are not scrolled all the way to the bottom when you switch to them. I will scroll a channel to the buttom but when I go to another one and come back the scrollbar returns to the previous position. The position that it returns to seems to be consistent for all channels. This is quite annoying if you switch between channels frequently as I do. I am running X-Chat Azure on Lion.

In the latest update, every time I switch tabs its scrolled a line or two up from the bottom, so I have to scroll down manually every single time. Also, the leftmost tab has no text entry box. Please fix it!

I give the app five stars overall, but theres one thing that really needs to be looked at. Although perl scripts can run, if you have any perl dependencies, it becomes problematic. I use macports to fufill certain dependencies, but macports does not update the system version of perl. Macports naturally updates its own verion of perl. And XChat Azure does not ship with the ability to switch to this particular version of perl. Thus, if you want to use those fancy perl libraries, you must install them to the system version of perl or else your scripts wont run. Its a very minor complaint. The XChat Azure deveopment team has put a lot of effort into making sure at least the system version of perl works. And this is great! By the way, if you installed Mountain Lion, youll have to wait for the next release to use Perl. Theyre on top of it, though. Good for them!

i need a good irc client :(

Latest version (1.11.6) introduced so many new bugs I cant count them all. Really sad, things had been going so smoothly. Hopefully these issues will be quickly dealt with.

The last few updates have broken things more than fixed them. The last update, 1.11.5, nick complete suffix style was broken. Tab complete works, but Ive gotten so used to inline completion that I keep forgetting I have to tab now. Its an annoying extra move. Also, the "feature" addition of "always bounce in dock" broke events/sounds options; it now ignores entirely what I have there and bounces on *everything* rather than bouncing only on things Ive set it to bounce on (which is nothing, I find that behavior annoying. I have Growl for a reason). Theres no option to turn off "bounce" either, ignoring all my option settings so even if I did want it to bounce on certain things, I have no way of setting that because it just bounces on everything, so now everything is of equal importance apparently. 1.11.6 Broke even more. Tab switching sometimes doesnt scroll down to the bottom, or scrolls backwards and I have to manually scroll it down. Sometimes the scroll locks, showing nothing new in channel even though people are typing and even I can type and send to channel, I wont ever see it. The only solution to that is closing the window and reopening it. Which creates an annoyance when its the status window, thus having to quit that server entirely and restart it. The "interesting" one I found last night was when I have a DCC chat window open to Person X, and that person has another nickname on server (nickname Y) using multiple server logins on their own copy of xchat, when they message me from nickname Y it shows up as from Person X in the dcc window. Im wondering why theyre making the messages complicated and screwing up the logs, but it turns out its not them, its xchat somehow screwing up simple messages! The most recent one I just found is that channel nick lists apparently no longer update when people leave the channel. My list shows a dozen people in one channel but theres actually no one there because they all left at some point the night before. Please stop introducing new "features" and fix the existing problems with any new updates. I seriously wish there was a way to rollback versions of app store purchases, because Id be happy going back to 1.5, the version first put on the app store, at this point.

Ever since upgraded to mountain lion it wont open.. if only i knew how to request a refund….

Im always reluctant to update apps from the appstore since theres no easy way to reinstall an older version that has been working if the newer version fails to work. I updated to 1.13.0, excited to checkout the new fullscreen mode, but was disappointed to see it would just crash on startup :( It looks like I was able to restore the previous version from time machine but wont know for a bit of use whether the restored app is usable or not.

Very low RAM & CPU usage and just works. However i still miss mIRC on windows

It appears to be a well-done port of Xchat, which is what I was hoping for. Xchat is not astounding any more, but it is functional and stable. Thats all I want. This is functional and stable. Thats all I wanted.

I have been using xchat-aqua and it is fine and stable. A-OK 5* Now I need SASL for a Snow Leopard system. Grumph, have we been abandoned?" as in if you cant afford it, ... (voice trails off) None of the clients have it. if anyone knows how to get a perl or python plug-in for xchat, please let me know. There was a breath of hope for xchat-azure "on some Snow Leopard machines." Thats why I am going here. Thanks. Mid-2007 Macbook, 2G RAM, the max.

app just crashes - never starts

Dies with a Symbol not found: _OBJC_CLASS_$_NSJSONSerialization every time. Vanilla xchat-2 works fine, stick with that.

I cant get XChat to receive DCC transfers and if its logging the channels I cant find the log files, but for general chatting the app works very well.

There is bascially zero documentation, and while the crash on launch bug has been fixed, there are other things that dont seem to work. For example, it cannot receive files via DCC.

Wont open on 10.6.8. Just installed and it crashes on launch

I used to use x-chat way back, then later x-chat aqua. Its nice to see the x-chat legacy continued and this version works *almost* perfectly for me. There have been a few times that preferences didnt seem to "stick" and were reset when I re-opened a dialog. Also if you click apply sometimes the ok button stops responding and you have to cancel to get out of the preference pane. I couldnt get the ruby bundle to work either (even after creating a proper rubyenv) but thats probably an issue with the bundle itself. For a free update to an amazing irc client lineage I give it 5 stars.

I switched from mIRC after getting my first mac, and I must say I am very pleased with this. My only issue is that when I restart and it reopens all my windows, including xchat, it doesnt restart in fullscreen like I had it. And it sometimes forces me to scroll a long while to get to the bottom where the current messages are.

I dont know what happened to this program. But when I tried to reopen it after I shut down my computer. It wouldnt open again! :(