What's your favorite MU* client?
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@auspice So this looks... not terrible. I might like it.
But every time I drag my input window to a different size, it snaps back down to one line's height. Is that how it works, or is something wrong?
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I do like Beip for the portability. I carried around my copy on a thumb drive a lot back in the day so I'd have my exact settings no matter what kind of machine I was on.
Mostly I like it because it does all the triggers and spawns and color options and etc. that I need, without also being too over-complicated to configure and setup if you just 'want to start using it.' It does have some more advanced functionalities now too, like the screen splitting when you page up into backscroll so you can keep track of active conversations while responding to a pose.
Most importantly to me, it is actively maintained and the dev responds to tickets quite quickly.
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@tat said in What's your favorite MU* client?:
@auspice So this looks... not terrible. I might like it.
But every time I drag my input window to a different size, it snaps back down to one line's height. Is that how it works, or is something wrong?
Ah HA, I have found the setting that makes it stop doing this.
This shows a lot of promise. I'll have to play with the 'puppet' windows later, which I think are maybe more what I'm used to spawns being.
Most importantly to me, it is actively maintained and the dev responds to tickets quite quickly.
This is why I decided to give it a try. I looked at their git and saw recent updates and a link to a discord. Yes, please.
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Yep, it is pretty updated! And as for the input window, you can not only get it to not be just 1 line high, but you can have it dynamically expand as you type into it, which is a feature I haven't found anywhere else and have become unable to do without.
It's Resize to Fit Contents in the input window settings. I have it at 3 lines for the default, and set it to max out at 15 lines.
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@tat said in What's your favorite MU* client?:
@tat said in What's your favorite MU* client?:
@auspice So this looks... not terrible. I might like it.
But every time I drag my input window to a different size, it snaps back down to one line's height. Is that how it works, or is something wrong?
Ah HA, I have found the setting that makes it stop doing this.
This shows a lot of promise. I'll have to play with the 'puppet' windows later, which I think are maybe more what I'm used to spawns being.
Most importantly to me, it is actively maintained and the dev responds to tickets quite quickly.
This is why I decided to give it a try. I looked at their git and saw recent updates and a link to a discord. Yes, please.
I'm glad you figured it out! I haven't used Beip in over a decade (esp. in recent years since I MU via Mac now; my PC is purely gaming purposes), so I wouldn't be much help.
I'm glad @Altair knows what's up! 
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One iMac. Two partitions.
I use Atlantis since I use the OSX partition 90 percent of the time. Before the iMac was a Macbook so Atlantis is how I've MU'ed since forever. I have Potato installed on my Windows side but it's not optimised. No time like the present. SIGH.
I miss SimpleMU.
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Mushclient. I like it, I do. I don't have all the functionality I could get out of it. But I'm old and hidebound sue me.
I did like where potato was going but, I haven't spent enough time on it yet.
I've also used duckclient, and that wasn't too bad.
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Wait, wait. Hold up.
Which one of you monsters voted for TinyFugue?
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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So I've just figured out how to get channels, at least, to behave mostly like SimpleMU spawns in BeipMU, and guys, this thing is pretty great.
You can set triggers to send toast notifications. You can manipulate the exact margins and line spacing separately for input and output windows. It has a discord channel with helpful people who also discuss updates.
Pretty sure this is my new client.
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He/Him
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I can't tell if you are a genius or a genuine masochist. But either way, I salute you.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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@derp said in What's your favorite MU* client?:
I can't tell if you are a genius or a genuine masochist. But either way, I salute you.
Dude.
He's a teacher.
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Since I'm 100% chrome my options are fairly limited. I use the DuckClient extension. It has dual input windows, supports all the pretty colors, but has no spawns.
That's okay with me though, because I never could use spawns. I did it for like... three months back in 2004, but I found myself unable to ignore the notifications from them. So I would quickly flip over to look, but not really read because I was posing, then forget that it was there! If I turned the notifications off I just never checked them and then missed everything!
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TinyFugue. And yes, as a matter of fact, I do churn my own butter.
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I started using duckclient a few months ago, and it's really grown on me.
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@autumn The only correct answer.
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@silverfox said in What's your favorite MU* client?:
That's okay with me though, because I never could use spawns. I did it for like... three months back in 2004, but I found myself unable to ignore the notifications from them. So I would quickly flip over to look, but not really read because I was posing, then forget that it was there! If I turned the notifications off I just never checked them and then missed everything!
That's actually similar to the reason I don't use spawns much. I have one for the public channel, because that gets super-spammy and it generally doesn't matter if I forget to chime in on the latest random conversation. But other than that, if I spawn things it's like... "Oh I should answer that... SQUIRREL!" and I won't get back to it until hours later, feeling guilty.
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@faraday That's literally the only reason I adore Potato. Two inputs means I can have a pose in the works and still answer questions, queries, stupid comments on channels if I so deign.
ETA: At least the way I used to use spawns (on zMud/cMud. Yes, I paid for a client once.), Potato's dual inputs cover it nicely.
He/Him
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@tinuviel said in What's your favorite MU* client?:
Two inputs means I can have a pose in the works and still answer questions, queries, stupid comments on channels if I so deign.
Yeah I would like having dual input windows, but I can live without them. If the thing-needing-response is in my same input window, I'll generally remember to answer it after I pose. Or I'll copy my pose into a safe buffer if I need to answer right away. (Ares incidentally has save and recall commands to do this for you). It's only when it gets put out of view on a spawn that I have issues remembering to circle back to it. Out of sight, out of mind.
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@faraday said in What's your favorite MU* client?:
Or I'll copy my pose into a safe buffer if I need to answer right away.
I sort of miss forcing myself into doing that. I'd always have a notepad(++) window open and type my poses into that. I, alas, don't have the attention span to care about spawns unless they're on a portion of the main window. I used to split my visual area in half, with one half being the scene the other being the channel/page spam.
