I was nodding along, until the author presented mIRC as an example of what should be. Maybe if you grew up with this app, it's efficient or whatever. But at a

I was nodding along, until the author presented mIRC as an example of what should be. Maybe if you grew up with this app, it's efficient or whatever. But at a glance, I have no clue at all what any of those icons do. It's just a chat app. Perhaps you should be able to control it, or at least learn it's afordances, with chat?