 | Oct 7 2009 |
UPRIGHT BASSIST Conversation works, but has trouble with Umlauts and such. Ergo: don't want it like that, will delete it.
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| Nov 11 2008 |
KILLER KLOWN KAR Conversation is by far the best IRC client. It's too bad the developer isn't supporting it. But it's working under Rosetta on 10.5.5 Intel for me, and yes I am running APE also.
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| Nov 6 2007 |
L008COM The author's email address has been sending out "Conversation isn't dead" auto-responses for 2 years running. I've given up hope. I know several OS X programmers that offered to port the code to at least make the program Universal, for free, and even without seeking credit (though crediting them would certainly be the right thing to do). But email after email goes unanswered. :-(
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| Aug 15 2007 |
JCRAIG Would love to see a UB version of this wonderful program. Colloquy is nice but it's always buggy. Will we see an update, or has this become vaporware?
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| Aug 15 2007 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Noting that this software has not been updated in more than two years, I'd say it has been abandoned.
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 | Sep 24 2006 |
69NUMBER69 Crashes on intel macs!Please make this wonderful irc client universal!!!
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| Aug 1 2006 |
XTAL still no universal binary???
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 | May 16 2006 |
DEATHAXE Wow. The best IRC client on Mac.
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| Dec 20 2005 |
APFHEX I've tried various IRC clients for OS X such as Snak and X-Chat Aqua, but Conversation has them beat hands down! Don't bother with anything else. Conversation just works, and is extremely "Mac-like" in its interface/features.
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| Aug 17 2005 |
ANONYMOUS rocks, first thing to do when you launch it is to change it to the 1-window interface. could use a list of common IRC commands, like /list, etc
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| Aug 12 2005 |
SAB Yep, this is the IRC program i've been looking for all this time. Definately the best and the easiet and the most reliable irc program on mac ever. plus it's free. Very cool.
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 | Jul 19 2005 |
MR. MIKE Can confirm this. First it gets a plist file from the authors webpage, and later it checks whatismyip.com to get the local WAN IP of the network Conversation is run. All fine :)
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| Jul 12 2005 |
theres NO! good IRC Software on MacOS available. Look at AmIRC(AmigaOS) or Xchat(not this bad Aqua thing!)
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| Jul 13 2005 |
S. C. STONE What in the hell gives you the right to give this one star? You didn't mention anything about the application. You're pathetic. Go back to the Linux community.
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| Jul 19 2005 |
ANONYMOUS What is Conversation? Basically an IRC App, but yet again, a very specific one. This nice commenter above has not even slightly understood whats its about, he rather focuses on his personal problems which he projects into the internet. Anyway, Conversation is as the name implies, a conversiation app - meaning its focused on that. Its an "i" App, and could be called like "iRelay" or what.. it CAN perform more than basic stuff of course, but the app is NOT your most complex IRC agent, its aimed to provide IRC to the cuasual user not necessairly interested in tech stuff, scripts and gadgets. In other words: You can start using it in a minute, but can dig deeper later, if needed. Would be nice it supported mIRC scripts as those are quite common
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| Aug 17 2005 |
ANONYMOUS That is NOT a review of the software. AmigaOS?! Puhleez. Utterly useless blather.
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| Jul 11 2005 |
JOHN LEWIS Love this app, the only solution for me. But why does it connect to homepage.mac.com upon first launch? If its just so the developer can get an idea of how many people are using his software then cool - but any other info about my Mac and myself and I'd be a bit reluctant to launch this prog. Maybe he could explain this here. But don't get me wrong, I use this all day every day. Great software. - Some smileys don't work because theres so many I suppose. Maybe there should be a custom icon interface in the preferences so you could assign something like :applause: to a GIF manually - I use 1 room all the time and this would be a welcome option. A floating smiley window even. - Sometimes Conversation cancels the shutdown process, even though it has been successfully quit/ended by the finder during shutdown. These 2 things addressed, and clarification of what information is sent to the dev, would make this perfect IMO.
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 | Jul 11 2005 |
PHILIPPE Conversation, like many other programs check if there is a new version available. To do so it downloads a file from the web site. You can disable these feature from the preferences. As you may know it is impossible to upload a program or an active page, like PHP to .mac, so there is no way to count or to transmit personal informations. The developer's email address (mine) is available from the web site, do not hesitate to contact me if you have any doubt, or more feature requests/but report. | |
| Jun 13 2005 |
REVERB After trying all the free graphical IRC clients for OS X, I settled on this one. It's stable, even when I join rooms with hundreds of people. The interface is well-designed and easy to use. Like any good Mac app, It Just Works.
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| May 15 2005 |
GIDEON Well itried many irc clients out there This is the best IRc application i ever used the interface and the features developer keeps putting, its fantastic peace of application highly recommended!
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| Apr 25 2005 |
ANONYMOUS it's the option key, not alt
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| Apr 24 2005 |
OCTAVIUS Very good IRC client. I used it always (my favorite client by far) however, now that I'm using Tiger, I can't connect to any servers. It's like it hangs. On my Panther machine though, it's perfect. Hope there is a Tiger update soon!
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| Apr 24 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Oh, and where did you get your tiger copy??
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| Apr 24 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Oh, you do know its shipping now right?
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| Apr 24 2005 |
OCTAVIUS i am part of the ADC so i get betas etc. Anyways.. this update fixes the Tiger (bug) so NOW again it's the best IRC client for mac.
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| Feb 24 2005 |
ILGAZ Author is very responsive to mail, be sure to mail him about the bugs, stuff you want.
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| Jan 11 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Could use a feature to ignore join/quit messages. If this is somewhere in the Help, I apologise in advance, but 20 minutes of digging didn't turn it up, so perhaps it's buried too deeply. | |
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| Mar 16 2005 |
DAN there is no option to hide join and quit messages it will be in newer releases I believe
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| Jan 9 2005 |
JOHN This is one of the better IRC app, but I just refuse to use it until the chat window text display is improved. As of right now, it is incredibly difficult to read and follow the "conversation" going on in any one chat room because: * Every user has a different color for their name but it doesn't match their text * There's no formatting/indenting between the names and text, causing everything to be run together. Personally, I prefer having user-icons for everyone in the chat room (imported from my buddy list, for example) or names displayed at a fixed-width so that text lines up. What Conversation really needs is a configurable text display area. Even better would be a display area based on HTML/CSS so that it can be completely adjusted. It's a shame, because the rest of the app is awesome, well put together and I'd really like to use it :(
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| Jan 9 2005 |
Version 2.0 worked perfectly... 2.1 doesn't connect anymore, and this to any server. What is the problem?
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| Jan 9 2005 |
ANONYMOUS You'd better contact the developper for this kind of problem.
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| Jan 9 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I'm not able to connect to my server either, and there seems to be a few other oddities too (window doesn't come up upon launch (at least it used to), can't quit with command-Q (have to select from the menu), etc. Just started up my computer and did a usual fsck, and everything else is working fine, so something might be wrong with this build.
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| Mar 12 2005 |
ANONYMOUS yep it does for me also I think developer is working on it, hopefully new version will come out without these bugs
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| Jan 9 2005 |
SILVERDR I am still keeping my favorite Conversation v1.4.2. Yes, it had some limitations but after checking two consecutive V2.x I still find the old one much more usable...
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| Jan 9 2005 |
LEONIDAS SARROS-GREECE This version(2.1) is just perfect!!!
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| Jan 9 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Easy to use, Mac's look & feel, THE BEST IRC client for Mac, Thanksss a lot!!!!!
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| Dec 31 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Easy to use, clean, stable, looks good, works perfectly and free! Excellent for me! Thanks!
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| Dec 31 2004 |
ANONYMOUS frequently get dropped connections. also would be nice if you could change the foreground/background colors.
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| Dec 11 2004 |
KARINA Would think it'd make IRC fairly easy for a novice, but it's kind of confusing for a pro due to the over simplification. Most heavily experienced users wont feel at home here, but it's a great way to bring those less experienced into IRC.
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| Nov 5 2004 |
LEONIDAS SARROS(GREECE) Conversation is an IRC client for rest of us!!!
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| Oct 28 2004 |
ANONYMOUS The main reason I was using Conversation is because it's the only IRC client I could find that didn't insist upon wasting huge amounts of screen space on useless nonsense I don't care about. Just a little window, like iChat, with what I need. With 2.0, I really like the idea of a single-window interface. However, the channel list on the left side of the window is absolutely ENORMOUS, for no good reason, and can't be made smaller! What's up with that? Just because I'm in two channels doesn't mean I want half the window occupied with a "list" of the two channels I'm in! A couple of nice, simple tabs would suffice. Also, give me an option to turn off the idiotic "smiley" pop-up menu. I had to hack the nib file to remove that thing.
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| Aug 23 2004 |
EUSKIR I wasn't familiar with IRC, but now..Conversation is making IRC for all of us (even for me)...Great, like an old familiar messenger, but until now with none of the "flops"
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| Aug 22 2004 |
XAMBIENT408 Despite the fact it phones home, it is a great client and FREE! It is easy to set up and start chatting or downloading files. It is excellent!
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| Aug 23 2004 |
PHILIPPE (CONVERSATION) Once again, like most program, it just checks wether there is a new version at startup. No data is transmitted, and you can disable it in the preferences.
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| Aug 20 2004 |
MIXEL Hi. I LOVE this client, it's very well thought out. One feature request (assuming that the dev reads this!) - Tabs - like Adium does, along the bottom of the room window.. So you could have a window per server and not have to fill the desktop with n-million channels. I hope this gets implemented some point soon, but I'll carry on using it until then anyway!
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| Aug 21 2004 |
PHILIPPE (CONVERSATION) Conversation HAS a single window mode, click on the Conversation (Favorites) window "Zoom" button - i.e. the green button with a "+" at the top left of the window.
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| Aug 22 2004 |
THE_TICK The way to enable that isn't quite intuitive though. It took me a minute to find what you meant, even by searching for it. Maybe if it were an option in the prefs or a button to click on the control panel area, that might be cool. Also, a way to switch between channels in single window mode would be awesome.
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| Aug 18 2004 |
ANONYMOUS About time too! | |
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| Aug 17 2004 |
BRYAN This is by far the best IRC client on the Mac. Very simple and easy to use interface and some powerful features. The developer is very responsive.
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| Jun 14 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Unfortunately, this application phones home on each start, not telling the user that it is doing it and why, and what information is being transferred and/or allowing to switch it off. Evil. Very evil :-(
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| Jun 14 2004 |
ANONYMOUS It only checks if there is a new version available. Disable it if you want in the preferences.
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| Aug 17 2004 |
Seems you aren't using anything Adobe, Macromedia, Microsoft...Apps that constantly phone home without your consent and you cannot even disable that...Unless you're using LittleSnitch, that is :-)
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| Jun 13 2004 |
ANANNA My IRC client of choice. I don't need the fancy stuff. I just want to join a channel and talk with the people who invited me to join them on IRC. Usually a project meeting for some open source contraption, but sometimes moderated chats with game community celebrities (which is right up there with local celebrities like the Meteorologist from Channel 13). I don't want something that blurts out what I'm listening to on iTunes, or shows iSight pictures (not that I could afford an iSight), or executes complex scripts that turns everything I'm writing into haxor language. Conversation does what I need and that's all I need. Thanks, Team Conversation!
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| May 26 2004 |
ILGAZ Its one of the best mac native clients so far. Plain, pure and simple. E.g. don't expect it to do tricks like advanced ones. Developer is also a friendly one. IMHO he should setup some donation icon ;)
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| Mar 24 2004 |
68KMLA Working well, 10.3.2, connected to Rant Radio and chatted away. Waiting for a few more options.
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| Feb 5 2004 |
MADOKA OZAWA I like the idea of this. Having used ircle and mIRC up to now the new look and feel is really nice. The way it lays out the chat window is really clean and highlighting urls and making them clickable is a nice touch too. However, there's one thing that really needs looking at. If you got to a file-serving channel and type !list, each server advert opens in a new window as a private message. Go to a busy channel and you'll find yourself with a couple of dozen cascaded windows taking up your screen. It would be better if there was an option to display these ads in the main chat window. For now I'll stick with ircle because of this, but I'd love something better (especially one that properly support the mIRC colour protocol as it does help with such channels)
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| Jan 18 2004 |
BOB SUTHERBY I have been using Conversation for over a month now, and overall it's great. There are still a few features that need to be enabled, but the developer is working on some of these issues, and hey it's free!! [Kudos for implementing DCC, it was needed.]
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| Nov 26 2003 |
CHRIS01 This software does just what it is supposed to do: IRC. And in a very nice way. I switched to Conversation about a month ago and don't regrett it at all. I didn't have any problems and it really feels right.
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| Nov 13 2003 |
JENDAHL Nice client. Seems very solid and stable. Good work!
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| Oct 30 2003 |
DORIAN INNES Absolutely love it. But I use irc solely for file transfers. So i'm going to have to use the competition and keep my eyes on this app for when it can handle files. just do that and youve got the hands-down, best irc client on the market.
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| Oct 26 2003 |
MRANDRE The only irc client I've seen that is simple, and does just what I need it to do. Nice, clean, attractive interface, and actively developed. And the price is right. Well done.
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| Oct 26 2003 |
NATHAN I like the interface, especially the simplification. More importantly, though, this is the first IRC client I've used that feels like it's a real Mac OS X application. Keep up the good work!
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| Sep 22 2003 |
RORY A really nice simply IRC client, seems to work well and it's free! I'm a long time user of ircle and I doubt I'll switch over to this, but for newbies this is the IRC client to recommend.
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| Sep 2 2003 |
CORDURA21 The concept makes it a great application. It doesn't negate the the choice to get a more feature rich client like X-Chat, it just adds to the choices. The interface is real nice and it solves it for the average non tech user. That's what macs are all about. Cheers.
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| Aug 26 2003 |
GABRIEL RADIC Excellent! This was really needed. Thanks to the author!
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| Aug 25 2003 |
CONFIELD Good idea but poor implementation. IRC was never created to be as simple as AIM or ICQ. It's more 'complex' because it has more logical features and was designed to be like that. I'm all for simplification but not when it's at the expense of the entire purpose of IRC.
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| Aug 25 2003 |
DAVIDCRICKETT No support for danish letters æøå
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