Forums General Discussion IRC Loosing ground to IM's?

I don't think there's any need to bundle IM and IRC in the same package. Just means unnecessary bloating.

Smileys look pretty, but they don't serve any useful purpose, as I find most of the extra features on IM's.

mIRC already has file transfers added to it. That's useful.

Only other feature I think would be useful to add would be a status system and away system that works more efficently than the notify list and away messages, like I described.

I might script such a thing myself some time. and see how it goes and if it catches on.