• Basic features, such as the display of my current nick, current channel modes, and /LIST, were not implemented.
• The tab completion omitted the colon after the nick, even with circe-completion-suffix set to the default : . It also occasionally gave odd tab completion suggestions based on obscure substrings.
• The currently focused channel(s) still appeared in the tracker regardless of lui-track-behavior’s value.
• Even with circe-lagmon-mode, Circe did not reconnect to my bouncer after losing the network connection.
• circe-lagmon-mode did not work with some servers.
• circe-lagmon-mode would cause Circe to spam “*** User away: <current nick>” when I was set as away, at least with multiple instances of Circe running.
• Circe would set my away message to my nick instead of what I typed as an argument to /[G]AWAY.
• The topic was not always visible à la Irssi, WeeChat, or ERC’s top bar. I would rather not type /TOPIC constantly.
• WHOIS output would appear in random buffers.

Early this month, I switched back to Irssi (with ZNC this time) after getting tired of Circe’s bugs. With multiple clients at least, it is not as good as bare Irssi in a terminal multiplexer, but it works better than Circe did.

• I customised the theme a bit. I originally started with more_readable.theme, but eventually decided to make my own theme consisting of the default with some colours changed.
• I installed hilightwin.pl. I did not give it a split window. I instead put it in its own window, numbered 2.
• I finally got it to log the status window (/window log on ~/irclogs/status.log).
• Shockingly, I installed nickcolor.pl. I had disavowed nick colouring for over a year, after I switched back to irssi from WeeChat.

The config is at GitHub.

Screen shot of irssi