IRC must be hosted, I cannot and will not buy a host, and it's not possible to run it from my pc.Please, I would even prefer IRC over XAT.
I personally use Palringo a lot to talk to my friends in a group chat, though it is kinda shoddy by today's standards it is entirely free and provides an easy mechanism to send pictures to groups of people. (copy and paste!)
As says everyone with past experience with my particular group, baseless as that opinion actually is. Concerning XAT, it's not that "one" might not like it, it's that using it completely undermines any respectable image that we could hold as the users of XAT usually consist of children and adolescents.Palringo is just a mess now, from my point of view. It also requires installing. (phone and pc)
I understand that XAT is poor anyways, I understand why one wouldn't like it. I'll search up a chat software I can set up.
Perhaps you can have a poll or something for an IRC. If it ever works out, I can help out with it.If IRC is cool with everyone, we will be able to host it on the same servers we host the website and game servers.