ii rules!

ii becomes more and more popular, people realize how flexible this program can be. Of course others hate it

Matthias Kopferman gave me the hint to write to the in-files with vim and now I use it with multitail to track the out-files and vim to write to the in-files.
The hint Matthias gave was to define mappings to write to different channels.
So I start my vim in the server directory and use mappings like:
map w1 :.w >> #ii/in
map w2 :.w >> #wmii/in

to write to the channels. Very cool.
There is also some guy who is creating a php based irc "client" which uses ii in the background.

http://yogan.meinungsverstaerker.de/phpii/index.php

And this is exactly what I mean with flexibility, you can nearly do everything which is IRC related with ii.
So if people say its not usable cause its too minimalistic they don't realize that it wouldn't be very difficult to write
for example a GTK-frontend. It only has to handle 2 sorts of files.