I'm a fairly long-standing user and fan of Internet Relay Chat, and as with many users of this service have a setup very much tailored to my own perferences.
My client of choice is irssi, combined with a number of scripts to automate or simplify mundane proceedures. Some of these are from scripts.irssi.org and other sources, some I have written myself as needs arose.
On this page I intend to publish some of my own scripts which may be of use to others.
This script will attempt to automatically recover a registered nickname using NickServ's RELEASE function when connecting to the network if it finds that the nick is in use or being held by services. This was written for freenode but may work on other networks using Atheme services and Charybdis familiy ircds.