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i'm not saying this is the *main* reason i switched to matrix, but it's definitely *a* reason
feat. @cwebber
@nightpool hexchat has been fucking up for me for a while and freezing a bunch causing lots of join/part spam
@nightpool maybe time for me to switch back to erc...
Still, you may consider the following clients:
https://weechat.org/
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/glirc
https://irssi.org/
I've heard various people praise these at different moments in the past.