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Monochrome is an IRC client intended for long-time IRC users.

Its primary goals are security, reliability and stability despite IRC network failures or connectivity problems.

If you have not used IRC before, you should probably look for another client; Monochrome is currently lacking documentation and assumes the user to have basic knowledge of common IRC commands and conventions.

Main features:

Reliable automatic identification with NickServ on most popular IRC networks.

Full Unicode support.

Sending and receiving of DCC file transfers, with auto-accept whitelist.

Ignore and half-ignore lists.

Trigger word list.

Auto-away, monitoring of away state of other users.

Logging.

Customizable command aliases.

Variety of entertaining easter eggs!

Noteworthy features currently missing:

Scripting - though functionality such as identifying with NickServ is automated, so there's no major need for running custom scripts.

Help and documentation.

Version 1.3 highlights:

Added "nick account" to server parameters - use this to specify your primary nick when identifying with NickServ from another nick. Useful when keeping more than one client connected.

Added widely requested "hide specific status messages" functionality so you can suppress joins/quits/modes.

Holding shift key while launching now suppresses automatically connecting to configured IRC servers.

Added mudlord's bsfilter code (hidden feature, only configurable via the XML).

Added safeguards so you can't run more than one Monochrome instance with the same configuration file; existing instance is activated instead.

Fixed incompatibility with servers using new revisions of TLS protocol.

Made left pane resize to fit the longest nick/channel.

Reworked Server Setup dialog layout.

Added "additional startup commands" section, for identifying with non-standard nickserv-like bots.

Codebase refactoring changes.

System requirements:

Windows XP or newer.

.NET framework 4.x.

License:

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Current version: 1.3, released on 2019-09-23.

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Source code

Need help? Join #monochrome on irc.freenode.net.