It was a fun group project. I feel, although others may disagree, that to a certain extent, zenirc was a victim of its own success. It was designed to be infinitely customizable, and as a result, the standard distribution became encumbered with packages to convert all its internal messages to klingon or make little ascii pictures of pigs online. While these are all cool toys, I started to lose interest. I have also noticed that Zenirc is now part of the Debian Linux distribution .
Development seems to have branched.
This client was designed to be very simple, minimal, and clean, yet extensible for those who wanted to extend it. This was similar to the ZenIRC design goals. I only ever wrote one extension to it, a module to keep one from being logged off for inactivity by the ICB server. ZenICB is maintained by Faried Nawaz , a friend of mine who was also kind enough to get me the web space for these web pages. I like working on free software, but I don't like the enormous copyright blocks that such code typically has at the top of each file.