ZoiteChat is a friendly IRC client built from the HexChat codebase, with a focus on packaging, polish, and long-term maintainability for the Zoite ecosystem.
What it is
ZoiteChat started from HexChat 2.16.2. The first ZoiteChat codebase version is 2.17.0.
The documentation lives at /docs/en/latest/.
Download
Grab the Flatpak, or build from source.
Flatpak status
The Flatpak build is working, but the Python plugin can freeze the client. A fix is in progress.