So the ideal configuration is basically shown in the above picture. It’s still not necessarily a black-box of security, but it’s much harder to handle SSL connections than plaintext over the net. It is not required, but it increases security for everyone by encrypting the stream making it harder to passively intercept everything. Simply click on the grey box that says “newserver/6667”, and type in the name and port of the irc…įor both DnE and nonet, it is definitely recommended that you use SSL. This may seem intimidating if you’re not used to this sort of thing (or maybe not?), but it’s simple. Next, click on the name you just added and on the right click on “edit”. To add a custom server (e.g DnE or night-ops server), simply click “add”.

You should be greeted by something like this:

Once it’s finished installing, launch it if it hasn’t been launched already. Sbopkg > install > dependencies > hexchatĮtc etc… Step Two: Basic Server Configuration If you’re using linux, you should probably be familiar with the package manager your system is using. On those which don’t, you may use contributed, unofficial packages”. You can ignore the rest of the download links, those are primarily for developers and will be packaged in the first download link.Īs stated on the download page: “Nearly all distributions have official packages for HexChat. You don’t really have to worry about changing any of the settings if you don’t want to, the defaults are fine. If you’re not sure, x86 should work fine for either…) Go through the installer. Step One: Installationĭownload and run the first link on the page. This increases the amount of people in a chat at a given time, and because of that the “chat” (called channel in irc) becomes more active more often. The advantages of using hexchat over a web-based irc client or some other chat engine is that you can auto-join and auto-start it, so you don’t have to worry about connecting. In my opnion, it has a better feature set than xchat, too, and is easier to use. Hexchat works for both windows and linux well, and is easily set up. Hexchat is a fork of xchat, which was an irc client for linux and windows, but ended up monetizing. This is simple relative to the usual technical difficulty of posts on this blog, but some folks have requested a quick setup guide for hexchat.

Add it to system startup programs so it starts on boot….

Click on Connect commands, add desired connect commands.

Click on channel tab, add channel info.

Click on that name, click edit on the right.

Download and Install (first link for windows on hexchat page).

Windows irc client 2015