So I missed the boat years ago when Quassel IRC got popular, but I recently learned about it and am quite interested in it conceptually because having a "detachable user interface" has been a feature request for @pidgin for a very long time.

While we're not looking at that quite yet, I'm curious if people still use Quassel and would be interested if #Pidgin 3 could be a front-end for it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC