# mIRC

12 Hacker News commenters recommended mIRC and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 30 years (3 owners). It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a fast, reliable, fully featured IRC chat client with its own scripting language that has kept working for decades. The most common caveat is that it runs only on Windows.

## Why people recommend it

- Fast, reliable, and still works (4 comments): "Fit a 1.44M diskette. Launched fully before you let go of the mouse button, on an old POS 486." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042985)) "I however could take mirc from like 1995 and still use everything" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041823)) "It still works great and it's still being updated!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45914124))
- Ages well, feels like old days (3 comments): "It pretty much works like in the old days and has aged very well IMHO" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50045533)) "mIRC was my favourite era of async communication" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053366)) "mIRC was the good old days." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50044985))

## What people warn about

- Windows only (1 comments): "it looks like mIRC still only runs on windows" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50211956))

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.mirc.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "mIRC", https://hackerapproved.com/p/mirc/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).