First I would like to thank cnaude for his incredible amount of time and dedication towards a plugin that he doesn't even use himself. He has been helping me and the BungeeCord network I'm hosting with fixing bugs and adding features to the plugin. If we got a problem with PurpleBungeeIRC he's always around and makes a build to fix it right away. His support is, described with two words, totaly amazing! It's not often you come across plugin authors like this.
PurpleBungeeIRC does lag behind PurpleIRC on features, as well as it depends on Herochat which does have some issues. However, the plugin works like a charm and it does connect the in-game chat nicely with the IRC channel through a bot.
I think there's a great future for PurpleBungeeIRC and I would highly recommend it to anyone that would like to either:
(a) give their players the ability to talk to those in-game from IRC instead of using badly done Android apps.
(b) would like to moderate their Minecraft network chat without having to be in-game all the time.
I do recommend people to use
https://h.cnaude.org/jenkins/job/PurpleBungeeIRC/ and join the IRC support channel if any issues.