I started using quassel a while ago. The idea of having core and GUI separated is great. Bouncers have always been a kludge, never thought of when the protocol

I started using quassel a while ago. The idea of having core and GUI separated is great. Bouncers have always been a kludge, never thought of when the protocol was designed. Bouncers and plugins/scrips for clients bend over backwards trying to streamline the experience, with mediocre results. Quassel created a new protocol that core and GUI talk, so when running multiple GUI instances on several machines all the open networks, channels, queries and backlogs are synchronized. The backlog even loads in chunks infinitely when scrolling up. Although the client lacks some minor features I got used to over the years with xchat, in general I'm quite happy with it.