Disabling Join/Part messages in various Mac IRC clients

• Mac - Colloquy

  • Q: Does colloquy have a way to ignore/hide parts, nicks, etc in a busy room? A: Colloquy does behave much better with no join/part event messages. There is no preference for this yet, but you can do a CSS trick to disable all event messages. This requires the nightly build. When using a custom style Variant, Option-Click the Customize button in Appearance Preferences. The CSS file should open, then add:

    .event {
        display: none;
    }
    

    Now type "/reload style" in the busy room. All the event messages will disappear and no new ones will show up.

• IRSSI: /ignore -channels #mwsf * JOINS PARTS QUITS NICKS
• Mac - Xchat Aqua: Preferences -> Chatting -> General -> Hide join/part messages. You must also restart the client
• Mac - Snak: go Snak -> Preferences -> Channel, and uncheck "Parts" and "Joins."
• Other - Xchat Windows: /set irc_conf_mode 1
• Windows - mIRC: View => Options => pick "IRC". Click the "Events..." button. Change the "joins", "parts", "quits", and "nicks" to your desired settings: "In Status" or "Hide" are good options.
• Other - BitchX / EPIC II:
  • /ignore #mwsf * JOINS NICKS PARTS CRAP