Customer Interview:IRC for new web:Comments and advice

Our beloved IRC can at-least start looking better. Would you like to use this for IRC? I have been thinking hard on what can be the best design - And this room based design makes the most sense to me. I am a noobie looking for ideas and advice- with open ears. Thanks

I mostly hangout on Mozilla. Don't know if ssl is absolute requirement but an IRC with history (searchable) would be welcome.

Tbh colourful irc clients that do not run in a terminal and prolly dont support blowfish and ssl are preety useless...