See also ii (https://tools.suckless.org/ii/ https://tools.suckless.org/ii/) doing something similar but on irc directly: use a single standard file for all conv

See also ii (https://tools.suckless.org/ii/ https://tools.suckless.org/ii/) doing something similar but on irc directly: use a single standard file for all conversation, auth and access is managed by the irc network directly and there are many UIs already. Like the article, a plugin is anything that reads a file and writes into another.