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@@ -2,11 +2,16 @@ [](https://travis-ci.org/irssi/irssi) -Irssi is a modular IRC client that currently has only text mode user interface, -but 80-90% of the code isn't text mode specific, so other UIs could be created -pretty easily. Also, Irssi isn't really even IRC specific anymore, there's -already a working [SILC](http://www.silcnet.org/) module available. Support for -other protocols like ICQ could be created some day too. +Irssi is a modular chat client that is most commonly known for its +text mode user interface, but 80% of the code isn't text mode +specific. We have a working but currently unmaintained GTK2 frontend +called xirssi. Irssi comes with IRC support built in, and there are +third party [ICB](https://github.com/jperkin/irssi-icb), +[SILC](http://www.silcnet.org/), +[XMPP](http://cybione.org/~irssi-xmpp/) (Jabber), +[PSYC](https://github.com/electric-blue/irssyc) and +[Quassel](https://github.com/phhusson/quassel-irssi) protocol modules +available. ## Installation |