Given how terrible the HipChat client is on Windows, it's really saying a lot that people end up choosing that over IRC. Maybe Freenode could implement an enha

Given how terrible the HipChat client is on Windows, it's really saying a lot that people end up choosing that over IRC. Maybe Freenode could implement an enhanced IRC protocol and clients could opt-in to that. I know at least one project that was very active on IRC, and they moved to HipChat for convenience. They also went full-on with the entire Atlassian stack (again, the fact anyone would choose JIRA is damning against everything else.)