Around OHM2013 I started using Xchat again to manage all the IRC networks I have to be on.
Pidgin simply could not do the job.
However I have to constantly authenticate my self against services. Unfortunately I have lost my ns-authenticate.pl plugin so I wrote a new one
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
Xchat::register(’NS Identify’, ‘0.2′, ‘Identify against NickServ’);
Xchat::hook_server( [...]