A DUDE OK, I wrote that entire review without ever quitting the program. It turns out that MacIrssi forgets all your color settings and window placements, making the beautiful interface a mere glossy facade on a junk app. I have since found Colloquy to be handier than I remembered, although it forgets windows placements as well, so now I've moved on to try XChatAqua once again. So far, none of my prefs have been forgotten, although it's a bitch to set up color schemes with the terrible/non-existent labelling. I guess I resort to my belief that there are no good Mac IRC clients; only promising to downright crappy ones. What a damn shame.
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