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Quassel IRC v0.4.0 Released

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Today, Quassel announced their release of version 0.4.0:

The Kubuntu-supported client’s 0.4 branch has a number of major upgrades, including:

KDE Integration: Quassel can now be integrated into KDE4, allowing for your style and color schemes to be picked up by Quassel correctly.

UI and Feature Overhaul: Plenty of minor improvements here, such as context menus, URL hyperlinks, colored nicknames, paste warnings and much more.

Streamlined Monolithic Client: Big improvement over the original core + client combined binary.

Facelift: Quassel are happy to brag that they have a complete makeover appearance-wise, courtesy of Nuno Pinheiro (from Oxygen).

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Quakenet.Org Web-Chat Released

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Today, Quakenet.org has announced the release of their new web-based chat client:

“We’re pleased to announce that our brand new webchat client is now out of testing and live for public use. The webchat client is the best way to connect to QuakeNet from a web browser, and offers many many excellent features such as full integration with QuakeNet and our “Q” channel service bot.”

Of course, we decided to take it for a spin.

The client comes up with a nice and simple window:

Webchat Introductory Screen

Webchat Introductory Screen

I assume you know how the next part works :P

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