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Pros
Pro Elegant and minimalist interface
Communi user interface for desktop and mobile is minimal, which helps you focus on the task at hand instead of being distracted by extra UI elements.
Pro Good ZNC integration
The author is involved in ZNC development, so the latest ZNC goodies are guaranteed to be well supported (http://communi.github.io/znc/). With help of the documented ZNC modules, Communi retains its state well across sessions. No repetitive buffer playback on reconnect, notifications and banners for newly received messages only, queries stay open until closed etc.
Pro UI runs on multiple platforms
While Communi itself is a IRC framework, the project offers several UI implementations such as desktop, SailfishOS, Meego and Symbian.
Pro Quassel protocol implementation
Communi is integrated with Quassel.
Pro Event merging
Consequent events (joins, parts, quits etc.) are merged to reduce noise and to keep focus on the discussion.
Pro Free
Pro Highly maintained
You can see the activity here. For example 62 pull requests were merged from 2018-02-17 to 2018-02-24.
Pro Hosted on the web
Always up.
Cons
Con No DCC
Communi does not support DCC (for a reason)
Con No scripting
Communi has no support for scripts
Con Server, not an application
This is a server, not an application, so there's that extra bit of overhead.
Con Uses NodeJS
Javascript...
