{"id":52554,"date":"2026-07-08T15:22:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=52554"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:22:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:22:45","slug":"sunsetting-textual-irc-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/08\/sunsetting-textual-irc-client\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunsetting Textual IRC Client"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codeux.com\/textual\/\">Codeux Software<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.codeux.com\/textual\/\">\n<p>Textual is the world&rsquo;s most popular application for interacting\n\t\twith <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_Relay_Chat\">Internet Relay Chat<\/a> (IRC) chatrooms on macOS.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Textual supports very powerful modern technologies such as the latest IRCv3 specifications, native IPv6, client-side certificate authentication, and much, much more in an easy to navigate, clutter free experience.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/help.codeux.com\/textual\/\">Unfortunately<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/narrativ.es\/@janl\/116872789106480470\">Jan Lehnardt<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/help.codeux.com\/textual\/\">\n<p>Textual has been sunset and will no longer receive updates.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/28\/eu-council-approves-new-chat-control-mandate\/\">EU Council Approves New &ldquo;Chat Control&rdquo; Mandate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/03\/the-end-of-icq\/\">The End of ICQ<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/29\/mozilla-looking-for-irc-replacement\/\">Mozilla Looking for IRC Replacement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Codeux Software: Textual is the world&rsquo;s most popular application for interacting with Internet Relay Chat (IRC) chatrooms on macOS. [&#8230;] Textual supports very powerful modern technologies such as the latest IRCv3 specifications, native IPv6, client-side certificate authentication, and much, much more in an easy to navigate, clutter free experience. Unfortunately (via Jan Lehnardt): Textual has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-07-08T19:22:48Z","apple_news_api_id":"9ca2bd78-a2ea-4236-8b1a-af7ad5c43e82","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-07-08T19:22:48Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AnKK9eKLqQjaLGq961cQ-gg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[827,30,32,2742,1451],"class_list":["post-52554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-chat","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-tahoe-26","tag-sunset"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52555,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52554\/revisions\/52555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}