ICYMI, zoitechat 2.18.1 is now in sid, forky, and trixie-backports.
Some small bugs remain, but it's mostly as functional as hexchat was, and upstream development continues.
The updated description reads: Description: GTK+ IRC Client ZoiteChat is a GTK3 IRC client based on HexChat. Features include HexChat-compatible Python, Perl and Lua scripting support, a plugin API, multiple server/channel windows, spell checking, multiple authenticationmethods including SASL, and customizable notifications. For more information
on IRC, see http://irchelp.org/. sney
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