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Textual is the world's most popular application for interacting
with Internet Relay Chat (IRC) chatrooms on macOS.
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Beautiful Interface
The user interface of Textual has been refined all the way down to the to very last pixel to deliver a beautiful, vibrant experience with your choice of a dark appearnce or light, including complementing styles.
Powerful
Textual supports very powerful modern technologies such as the latest IRCv3 specifications, native IPv6, client-side certificate authentication, and much, much more in an easy to navigate, clutter free experience.
Privacy is valued
Textual protects your privacy by leveraging widely accepted, proven technologies such as Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) to ensure that the only people reading your conversations are those that you intend to.
Customizable
Textual takes customization to the next level with styles created using well documented, open standards in addition to addons built using a multitude of programming languages such as AppleScript, Objective-C, Swift, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, and Shell.
Textual also includes:
- Address Book for tracking when friends are online
- Auto-completion for nicknames, commands, and channels
- Automatic highlight spam prevention
- Bold, color, italic, and underline text formatting
- Conversation tracking to help individual users stand out in busy channels
- Filters that allow actions to be performed on incoming messages
- Highliy customizable notifications
- Images, video, YouTube, and other media shown in chat
- Powerful, customizable, rule-based ignore matching
- Powerful integration with ZNC and similiar bouncers
- Quick navigation using fuzzy searching
- Rich array of keyboard shortcuts
- SOCKS4, SOCKS5, and HTTP proxy support (with or without SSL)
- Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)
- Speech synthesizer for the visually impaired
- Support for sending self-signed certificates for authentication
- Support for validating and specifying trust for untrusted certificates
- Text emoticons to emojis conversion
- Viewing multiple channels at the same time
And much, much more!
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