Remove HexChat (unmaintained)

[Patrick]

@who3

What will it be replaced with?

No replacement for an IRC client planned for now. IRC doesn’t seem to be important enough anymore to warrant a default installed IRC client.

@who3

I recommend https://nheko-reborn.github.io/ Matrix client. Closest thing to IRC UI.

Off-topic here. Needs to be discussed in the appropriate tickets.

Client-Server Instant Messengers (IM)

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Nheko (Reborn) - Matrix Chat Client

The problem is original client is dead, but there is active fork. Here on the fork I would give a link but it is blocks from posting a link