[TriLUG] IRC lack-of-fun

[Stephen Roller]

> One of the arguments against has been a lack of console based Jabber client
> that doesn't suck (subjective I realize), but more to the point one that
> supports MUC (Multi-User Chat).  bitlbee provides an excellent bridge for
> those wishing to use irssi (or any IRC client for that matter) to the other
> IM networks, but it does not yet have MUC support.  I think this continues
> to be too large a hurdle to a full-scale migration of something like
> #trilug.

I don't know the status of the project, but someone was writing a
ncurses IM client based on libgaim for Summer of Code '06.