Talk:Irssi

Cleanup
I've cleaned up the article somewhat. I hope it's still useful. Some of the comparisons with other IRC clients seemed a bit biased, based on personal opinion and not really verifiable, so I've removed those parts. --ozzmosis 15:54, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

I removed the section about the backdoor from the article because it didn't seem important enough to have its own section. I still left a link to the relevant page at the bottom of the article. I also fixed some random grammatical stuff, and broke the links section into categories, since it was getting kind of long. I also cleaned up this talk page. --Rhythmthing 03:17, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Name Origin
The edit that removed this just caught my eye:

The name "Irssi" comes from Finnish internet slang meaning "IRC", and should be pronounced "ihr-see".

Nowadays when Irssi is well enough known, irssi means only the client. Back when Irssi didn't yet exist, Finnish people sometimes called IRC "irssi". Like normally ircci -> irkki, but since "c" can in some words be also pronounced as "s", some people thought it's funny or whatever to call ircci -> irssi. Anyway, since nowadays I don't think anyone calls IRC irssi anymore (since it'd just be ambiguous), the sentence could use a little editing if it's ever added back.. --Irssi's original author — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.250.65.172 (talk) 20:11, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * This may be the case, but surely derivative terms such as irssata 'to chat on IRC' are still, at least in my experience, platform or client independent concepts. --Zet (talk) 23:12, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

In finnish most of the words are pronounced as they're written. It's pronounced just as "irssi" not "ihr-see"- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tusina (talk • contribs) 18:59, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Merge
I redirected MacIrssi to Irssi, because though it is rather too unknown for a whole article, a redirect would be more efficient. [wossi] 21:49, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Clarification Request
The section about running irssi in windows is unclear. The section in parentheses can be read as affecting either the windows-native install, the cygwin install, or both. Which is it? Please make that part more clear, and break it out of the parentheses. MrZaius talk  04:43, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Done. --Rhythmthing 03:17, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Logo
I have removed the logo since it is a red link. [wossi] 21:24, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

I reinserted the logo...maybe it's about time? Rhythmthing 03:08, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Pronunciation in IPA?
I've listened to the official pronunciation, and it appears to be [ˈirsi], or perhaps [ˈirssi], with an actual [r], not an [ɹ]. Can anyone verify? --Ihope127 (talk) 20:43, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's actual [r] at least according to Alveolar_trill page, which says [r] is the same as in Finnish "purra" word. And Finnish_phonology says there are no other trills in Finnish language anyway. --TimoSirainen (talk) 05:59, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Improve References
At present there is a lack of references in the article. The topic is clearly notable and references that appear in reliable third-party publications can be easily found using the news search:

Please help develop this article. Thanks. --Hm2k (talk) 12:00, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

notability?
Irssi not notable? Apparently being distributed with nearly every FOSS os distribution available is not sufficient... BlanchardJ (talk) 17:15, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Shame neither WP:NSOFT got accepted. But anyway, no--FOSS distros tend to contain whatever contributors (any random third-party user or developer) feels like packaging and submitting. I'm not aware of any major distro that accepts/rejects contributions based on anything more than quality of the packaging (i.e., it's not a reliable source for anything about the underlying software). That is, we're stuck using WP:GNG, and inclusion in a distro seems to me like trivial coverage (product listing, not significant). DMacks (talk) 17:32, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply, that was meant as a somewhat sarcastic comment about the notability challenge of a wildly used software. I think that the Refimprove banner would be sufficient in this case. I was not aware of the failed guideline proposal however, there is some interesting material in both of them sadly. BlanchardJ (talk) 18:13, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah. I love irssi! DMacks (talk) 21:07, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Windows
I don't see a download for Windows on the downloads page. It appears to have been removed since the time it was archived. Benjamin (talk) 04:20, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

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