# slate/slate

Slate IRC client

Repository: https://github.com/slate/slate
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/slate-slate
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2014-05-30T00:32:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4733, "days_push": 4479, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1905, forks 97 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:51.943469+00:00)

## What it is
Slate is a desktop IRC client built with web technologies on node.js and node-webkit for OS X and Linux, designed to be minimal, CSS-themable, scriptable with JavaScript, and extensible through third-party plugins. The author describes it as a partially-implemented single-day hack project that never reached a usable state and has not seen a release since 2014.

## Use cases
- irc client for mac or linux
- themable irc chat client
- extensible irc client with plugin support
- scriptable irc client written in javascript
- minimal irc client with keyboard shortcuts
- irc client built with web technologies

## When to choose
- You want to fork or study a hackable, CSS-themable IRC client built with node-webkit
- You need the clean JavaScript IRC libraries the author extracted from the project
- You are interested in an IRC client architecture where the core is composed of plugins

## When to avoid
- You need an IRC client you can actually use today - the author states it is not usable and the last release was 2014
- You need Windows support, which was planned but never delivered
- You expect maintenance, bug fixes, or security updates for a daily-driver chat app

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: chat-interface, gui, plugin-system, theme
- domain: messaging-platforms, media
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: irc, irc-client, chat, node-webkit, css-theming, scriptable, keyboard-shortcuts, extensible, web-technologies, messaging, macos, linux, desktop, nodejs

## Member repositories
- slate/slate (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:51.943469+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:11:50.391259+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/slate/slate (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:51.943469+00:00, sha 1de9aa53d18e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.