I dislike web chat for one reason, the overview is very limited.

So Matrix, with a bitlbee plugin or a text client, would be amazing imho.

I'm just so used to seeing many lines of text, and getting a good quick overview of what is going on that way. Sometimes I use /last in irssi, and very rarely I've searched through a channel's web archive. But mostly I just see whatever it is I need directl in the client. If it's a slow chat I see it the next day. It's not going anywhere.