Even though I no longer visit StarChat, some of my friends still do, and at times, they tell me tales of the Wondrous Land Of Much Great IRCing that I left behind. The newest tale is related to this one channel called #40plus, which is one of the largest channels on StarChat (or at least was when I still wandered around Those Hallowed Halls). It was noticed that the current channel topic is this:

Please remove 'kickchat' mirc script if you have it. Also 'serene mirc or serene pirch'. They are not permitted on starchat!

SereneMIRC and SerenePIRCH are the two customized versions of mIRC and pIRCh, respectively, that our network offers for download. Excuse me while I die laughing. XD Insecurity much, madame?

I was the one who scripted SereneMIRC, incidentally, and I'm quite flattered that people like it enough that they go to the trouble of adding StarChat servers to it (it only has Serenity-IRC servers in the servers.ini by default) and use it on StarChat as well. I'm even more flattered that StarChat seems to think SereneMIRC and SerenePIRCH so dangerous that they need to be outright forbidden. True, those two clients advertise Serenity-IRC in their default quit messages, but so do pretty much all "branded" clients - including StarChat's own ones, StarMIRC and StarPIRCH. Which we see wander through Serenity-IRC fairly often, and we just grin at.

I dunno. If I saw people consistently using the "branded" clients of another network instead of mine, I'd take that as a hint that maybe, just maybe, my own branded client isn't quite up to par. (Just five extra lines of code and a fugly background to differentiate it from plain mIRC? No information or documentation on shortcut keys introduced? Unnecessary soundfiles? Say it isn't so.) But I guess that requires coherent thought beyond "wahhhhh, they're evil, make them STOP!"...

I hear one or two of the opers there are somewhat able to script mIRC, maybe they could help. Just gotta be careful about those endless loops, I hear they can cause a client to ping itself out...