Ah, good to know. Is that a requirement that the client and the core talk IRC to qualify as a bouncer? I guess that will also rule lounge as a bouncer since afaik it talks HTTP and not IRC. ZNC is a proper bouncer then.
I don't think there is a formal definition, but for the longest time that's how it has been, so people might assume they can just use any IRC client to connect to the bouncer, so it might be worth pointing that out for clarification when talking about the lounge or quassel.
Well back in the day your connection to a university shell account might have been through dialup, so using the low-bandwidth IRC protocol to talk to the BNC was perfect.
