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DESCRIPTION

Colloquy... Traditionally, chat clients on the Mac have been anything but glamorous. Colloquy is an advanced IRC & SILC client which aims to fill this void. By adhering to Mac OS X interface conventions, Colloquy has the look and feel of a quality Mac application.

Features:

  • AppleScript: A powerful dictionary for easy scripting.
  • Fast & Solid IRC Core: Powered by the Irssi engine.
  • Fast & Solid SILC Core: Powered by the SILC Toolkit.
  • Plug-In Love: Unlimited extensability through Plug-Ins.
  • Tight Ship: IRC over SSL for the paranoia.
  • Styled For You: Pick the look for your conversations, powered by WebKit.
  • Colors of the World: Fully compatible with mIRC colors.
  • Unintrusive Interface: Sleek multi- or single-window modes with tabs or a drawer.
  • File Transfer Medly: Full DCC transfer support with resume and passive DCC.
  • They're Your Buddies: A buddy list for your IRC friends.
  • Multiplicity: The freedom to chat on multiple servers.
  • Open Minded: Open source, like it should be.
  • Much, Much More! Just a better experience all-around.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.2.1 (4132):
  • Fix a crash when deleting a connection while a room/chat is still open.
  • Fix a bug where Colloquy would have very high CPU usage (likely due to a room having the blank chat room bug.)
  • Update the console icon with the Leopard look.
  • Use correct source list style on Leopard.
  • Fixes a mixup in the German localization.
  • Modifies the Italian lozalization and fills in some previously missing strings.
  • Adds more Japanese localizations.
  • Fixes the strings in the French localization.
  • Fixes the "Auto rejoin when kicked from room" preference having no effect in the Traditional Chinese localization.
  • Fixes where the Room Inspector's minimum size was too small for some localizations.
  • Removes 'Your Name in Chat' and 'Buddy Name in Chat' as options in the General Preferences.
  • Remove JVUseTabbedWindow to maintain previous behaviour.
  • Disables the Drawer interface.
  • Disables the Transcript Browser.
  • Don't create the Colloquy Transcripts folder if logging is disabled.
  • Don't WHOIS server operators when checking periodically checking for online users in watch rules.
  • Fix /reload style and adds /reload all.
  • Adds the /unignore command.
  • Allows you to use commands with tab completion.
  • Initially select the Colloquy.png background when customizing styles so selecting None works the first time.
  • In the DecafBland style, long nicknames will now be truncated instead of wrapping to the next line.
  • If a nick is hyphenated in the Bland style, it will no longer wrap to the next line.
  • Handle IRC error '404 cannot send to channel' and show an alert.
  • Handle IRC error 477 'room does not support modes' or 'identify to join room', also show the literal reason in the error alert, if available.
  • Adds a warning if you try to switch to a nickname that is currently being used.
  • Displays an error message when your nick fails to change because you are changing it too fast, or if a room you are in doesn't allow it.
  • Add more notification when a user if offline or away when a private chat is open. And prevent sending when they are offline.
  • Adds support for IRC errors 'Room is Full (+l)', 'Invite Only Room (+i)' and 'Banned from Room (+b)' to Chat Core and handling of these three errors plus 'Room Password Incorrect (+k)'.
  • Updates the Growl framework.
  • Displays message(s) for room activity in Growl notifications.
  • Add checks to prevent trying to join a room twice.
  • Step back how frequent reconnects are attempted.
  • Use the SystemConfiguration framework to reconnect faster after a network interuption.
  • Fixes an issue where connections to some Undernet servers fail because of no ident.
  • Correctly set and remember the preferred nickname when changing it in the user interface. Unlike /nick wich is only a temp change while connected.
  • Fix for servers that send multiple mode prefixes in the NAMES message.
  • Treat the - prefix as operator. Some say it should be 'super op' but we don't have that extra mode.
  • Allows you to change the width of the File Transfer window.
  • Fixes our turbo DCC SEND requests, some were missing a space.
  • Fixes nick tab completion for nicks beginning with "\".
  • Adds some more emoticon combinations.
  • Fixes a bug where changes to emoticons were not reflected in appearance preview.
  • Fixes a bug where send message events in AppleScript would return 'missing value'.
  • Fix the issue where scroll events would affect background windows.
  • Make private messages to other users while connected to a bouncer show up when not sent from the current computer.
  • More than one consecutive space will now display correctly in the topic bar.
  • Support more URLs such as Skype, Spotify and mailto.
  • Fixes an error in the Buddy List. When you add a buddy to the server freenode.net, it wouldn't be recognized.
  • Allows you to add buddies to top level servers and remain in effect server-wide.
  • Fixes some leaks.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Timothy Hatcher
Downloads:34,046
  - Version d/l:2,123
Internet:Chat
License:Free
Date:09 Jan 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
****.
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Colloquy User Reviews (46 posts)Write A Review
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Jan 14 2009

KKNOPP  BTW a tip or hint to the people who run the #Colloquy IRC channel.

Be a bit nicer to new people that show up. Acting pretentious or "above" those that come in and don't automatically fit into your "clique" doesn't do your application or the time spent on it justice.

Remember, if it wasn't for us, you'd not have a userbase. I was on there earlier and saw two people that weren't cussing, saying anything BAD about the application, or trolling at all. But they were being treated poorly by those that ran the channel.

Having a great application like Colloquy wont matter if those that are involved act badly toward those interested.

Not going to name names. You know who you are.   
(Version 2.2.1(4132))

praisebury
+5
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Jan 16 2009

ROBBY.IS.ON  I've found the #colloquy people to be quite friendly actually. I'm sorry you experienced otherwise.  
(Version 2.2.1(4132))

praisebury
+2
Jan 17 2009

KKNOPP  They are for the most part now that I have been in there for awhile. But the day I was in there was an exception I guess. Quite hostile.   
(Version 2.2.1(4132))

praisebury
+5
Jul 3 2009

ILGAZ  It is the problem of open source in general. People having nothing to do with the project declare themselves as "supporters" and act like they are the people who does code it giving bad name to the project itself.  
(Version 2.2.1(4132))

praisebury
+1

Jan 13 2009
*****

KKNOPP  Forgot to write a review! (Sorry, been playing with my new IRC toy :D)  
(Version 2.2.1(4132))

praisebury
+5
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Jan 13 2009

KKNOPP  Wow I really thought this program was dead in the water. Glad I was mistaken. I am back to using it now instead of Snak.

Colloquy is probably the most MODERN and mac like of all IRC clients. It seems the others are stuck in 1995 and haven't really tried to improve on the idea at all. Other than scripting abilities and aliases and such. I've been wanting REAL emoticons in IRC for ages. And Colloquy lets you turn them off if you are annoyed by them as well. (Choice is good)

The only real bugs I had was the preferences would "stick" sometime and I couldn't get them open. Especially the Appearance panel.   
(Version 2.2.1(4132))

praisebury
+6
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Jan 12 2009

GREYMAN  Stability in the current version is gone. if system looses network connectivity the application crashes. Also private messages are no longer opening a new tab. Having to resort back to older build.  
(Version 2.2.1(4132))

praisebury
-1
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Jan 12 2009

GREYMAN  Stability in the current version is gone. if system looses network connectivity the application crashes. Also private messages are no longer opening a new tab. Having to resort back to older build.  
(Version 2.2.1(4132))

praisebury
-2
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Jan 9 2009

TERRIO  Won't start up on 10.3.9 -- crash log reads:

dyld: /Users/xxxx/Downloads/Colloquy.app/Contents/MacOS/Colloquy Undefined symbols:

ChatCore undefined reference to _NSBaseURLDocumentOption expected to be defined in AppKit

ChatCore undefined reference to _NSCharacterEncodingDocumentOption expected to be defined in AppKit

ChatCore undefined reference to _kCFStreamPropertySSLSettings expected to be defined in CoreServices

ChatCore undefined reference to _kCFStreamSSLAllowsAnyRoot expected to be defined in CoreServices

ChatCore undefined reference to _kCFStreamSSLValidatesCertificateChain expected to be defined in CoreServices

Acid undefined reference to _kCFStreamPropertySSLSettings expected to be defined in CoreServices

Acid undefined reference to _kCFStreamSSLAllowsAnyRoot expected to be defined in CoreServices  
(Version 2.2.1(4132))

praisebury
-4
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Jan 9 2009

ROBBY.IS.ON  2.2 requires 10.4.  
(Version 2.2.1(4132))

praisebury
+3
Jan 11 2009

TERRIO  Interesting; at the time I posted this, it still claimed to run on 10.3.9. Oh well.  
(Version 2.2.1(4132))

praisebury
0

Jan 9 2009

GREYMAN  System is 10.5.6 and I only use colloquy for silc servers. Current version 1/9/2009 crashes on start-up. even tried with it generating a new preferences file. Please fix this going back to older version till this is fixed.  
(Version 2.2(4129))

praisebury
-1
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Jan 9 2009

ROBBY.IS.ON  Try now, a silent update (2.2.1) was pushed soon after the initial 2.2 release fixing this crash. :)  
(Version 2.2.1(4132))

praisebury
+2

Dec 7 2008
*****

GNDZAPP  Use it daily, still my favorite IRC client!  
(Version 2.1(3761))

praisebury
+1
[ Reply ]
Dec 23 2007

JOHN NOWAK  Can't even get it to add an SILC server in the latest version (2.1). The join room button seems broken as well... manually joining in the console seems okay. Had to delete preferences twice so far as it crashes on start. Same experience on two different computers on Leopard.

Someone, please write a STABLE SILC client! I'll pay for it!  
(Version 2.1(3761))

praisebury
-1
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Dec 23 2007

JOHN NOWAK  I seem to have much better luck with the latest nightly build...  
(Version 2.1(3761))

praisebury
0

Sep 17 2007
****.

FOOBAZ  Version 2.1(3720) of Colloquy fixes a lot of bugs and is far more stable and less resource-intensive than earlier versions. I tried it and ended up switching back to Colloquy from X-Chat.  
(Version 2.1(3720))

praisebury
+1
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Sep 20 2007

PSYCHOWILL  It doesn't work at all.  
(Version 2.1(3720))

praisebury
-1
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