irssi
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Nov 17, 2025first mention
Oct 11, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I can't say it's hard to just run irssi inside of tmux and attach/detach as necessary remotely”
“I use irssi inside tmux from my phone a lot”
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“For IRC there is irssi-otr”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- IRCv3 2 mentions
- Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? 1 mention
- GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven 1 mention
- EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our children lose out" 1 mention
- Linux Basics for Hackers 1 mention
- Show HN: Matrirc – run irssi in 2026, talk to people on Matrix 1 mention
Also written as Irssi. Data: irssi.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 9
“i used to run irssi in screen back in the day”
“I can't say it's hard to just run irssi inside of tmux and attach/detach as necessary remotely”
“irssi running in screen (irc client, yes, occasionally I still talk to people on there)”
“I use irssi inside tmux from my phone a lot”
“For IRC there is irssi-otr”
“irssi, aerc, stig+transmission-daemon”
“Has everyone moved on from irssi to weechat?”
“TWM + emacs + irssi + mpv(ytdl)”
“mutt, tin, irssi”