Hide join part messages

To reduce noise: (clients listed in ASCIIbetical order)

Adium

Choose Display → Show Join/Leave Messages. Unchecking "Show/Join Leave Messages" will hide them.

Chatzilla

Chatzilla automatically enables "Conference Mode" whenever a channel gets above 150 people. You can have it with less if you want by editing the "Conference Mode limit" under the Appearance tab. It can be set for single channels, networks, or globally.

Colloquy

Add the following to your style's CSS file and type "/reload style":

.event {
   display: none;
}

See Colloquy FAQ: Does colloquy have a way to ignore/hide parts, nicks, etc in a busy room?

ERC

This is one of the IRC clients inside Emacs (the other being RCIRC), see ERC for more.

Put this in your ~/.emacs:

(setq erc-hide-list '("JOIN" "PART" "QUIT"))

freenode webchat

See #qwebirc.

HexChat

For all channels:

Settings → Preferences → General → Check "Hide join and part messages"

For a single channel:

left-hand window list → right-click the channel → Settings → Check "Hide join/part messages"

HydraIRC

Right-click on chat window → Verbosity → Show least

(will still show nick changes)

IRCCloud

Web: Options → untick "Show nick changes, joins and parts".

Android: Overflow menu → Display Options → untick "Show nick changes, joins and parts".

ircII, EPIC4/5, BitchX

/ignore #xkcd-signal joins,parts,crap
/ignore yourNick ^all

This isn't quite right, because the second command unignores your nick everywhere, instead of just on #xkcd-signal. EPIC4's /ignore command isn't that flexible, though.

ircII

/ignore * crap

irssi

/ignore #xkcd-signal MODES JOINS PARTS QUITS
/ignore -except -pattern yourNick #xkcd-signal

Konversation

• Settings → Configure Konversation
• in the left sidebar, Behavior → Chat Window
• Hide Join/Part/Nick

KVirc

To supress joins, execute in "New Script Tester":

event(OnJoin,supressJoinMsg) {
    halt
}

To supress parts, execute in "New Script Tester":

event(OnPart,supressPartMsg) {
    halt
}

To supress quits, execute in "New Script Tester":

event(OnQuit,supressQuitMsg) {
    halt
}

To enable these events output back you will have to delete corresponding event handlers from "Event Editor" (Scripting → Edit Events) (be sure to press Apply or OK before closing the editor)

Instead of supressing those messages, you may consider splitting output window into two parts: the above mentioned messages would be output into the top part and all the talks would be output into the bottom window. To make it so, search for "Split View" in the collapsing panel just above the nick list.

To turn off the output of person's mask for in messages you will also have to dive into scripting a bit) You will have to write your own event handlers for some events, where you output hand-made messages and in the end halt standard message output (by placing halt at the end as shown above)

LimeChat

Preferences → Log → uncheck "Show join/leave events" (version 2.33)

mIRC

Tools → Options → IRC → click Events → change joins, parts, quits, and nicks to what you need under "Hide"

To get rid of sound altogether on the most recent versions of mIRC: Tools → Options → Sounds → uncheck

Quassel

Right click on the buffer → Hide Events → Joins, Parts, Quits...

qwebirc

Click the "IRC" icon in top-left corner. Select "Options" and enable "Hide JOINS/PARTS/QUITS".

Pidgin (aka Gaim)

Tools → Plugins, enable "Join/Part Hiding". You may need to configure it to reduce the default number of participants you need before it kicks in, from 800 to something like 100.

Alternatively, use the IRC Helper plugin.

Smuxi

File → Preferences → Filters → Add

• Protocol: IRC
• Group: Group/Public
• Name: #xkcd-signal
• Type: Event
• Pattern: /(join|left|quit)/

For more details check this Smuxi FAQ entry

Textual

For all channels:

Textual → Preferences → Style → Show general event messages

For a single channel:

Channel → Channel Properties → General Settings → General → Disable general event messages

Weechat

Smart filter (only show relevant joins and quits):

/filter add irc_smart * irc_smart_filter *

The first * can be replaced with a list of buffers, e.g. irc.freenode.*,irc.foonetic.#xkcd,!irc.freenode.#important

See /help filter for hiding all joins/quits (including relevant ones). All filters can be toggled temporarily using [Alt] [=].

X-Chat

To enable conference mode globally, type:

/set irc_conf_mode 1 
/cycle

The channel-specific option can be toggled via a checkbox in the channel's context menu (right-click on the channel name in the tab or sidebar):

Settings → Hide Join/Part Messages

X-Chat Aqua

Click the down arrow next to the input box and select "Conference Mode"