Just getting this in the spotlight, since the old thread has gone to hell and is being ignored for the most part.
irc.quakenet.org / #gog
Go go go

mmm, IRC! I'm almost always there :D

Which irc client do you guys recommend?

I for one use ChatZilla because I already have Firefox open all the time and if it's not open it means that I don't want to be on IRC anyway.
The one disadvantage is that if you have a memory leak and need to close Firefox you also have to close ChatZilla.

Opera, the best Windows client I've found so far.
Colloquy, the best client I've found so far regardless of platform, only exists for Apple systems though.

Does noone use mIRC anymore?

It's awful. There's plenty of alternatives.

I still do and I fail to see how its awful other then it costing money to buy. It chats on IRC fine and it sits in the background taking up about 9mb or ram and basically no cpu. I also don't need to leave firefox open to have it running.

Really??!! I'll have to visit sometime.

I use Pidgin for IRC.

I tried that, but found the packet loss was too high when all of the damn neighborhood cats kept catching them.

I use IceChat and I don't care.

I can't believe you have to pay... I was sure it was free. Mind you, I haven't used it since 2001...

i've never managed to connect to an IRC channel using pidgin...
but my good ol' linux terminal gets the job done aswell.