I read "We are investing heavily in XChat" and was really confused for a second, having used xchat as my main IRC client back in the day.

I hadn't realised that it was now long defunct, with its last release in 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XChat_(IRC_client)

Huh, I'd never heard of them.

X is shutting down... happy face Communities because of low usage and lots of spam not happy face