[akavlie]

Main advantages are:

  1. Accessible to those who don't have expertise or interest in setting up their own IRC bouncer
  2. Usable from any web browser
  3. More friendly UI
  4. Usable by sites that want a chat room for their users (look at twit.tv -- embedded IRC client front and center).

There is no proprietary backend; the whole client, and the library powering it (node-irc), are open source.

[nuclear_eclipse]

Sorry, perhaps "proprietary" was a bad choice. What I meant was that I would appreciate if the web client itself didn't require or rely on the nodejs/mongodb backend, and could instead operate directly on top of an IRC server or bouncer.

Ie, I would like to run your web client on my machine, have it connect directly to my IRC bouncer (or directly to a remote IRC server), and not require a local database to use it. I'm interested in using it as just another IRC client that connects to my IRC bouncer, rather than it being my primary IRC client. From what I see, this isn't possible.