i’m not primarily a user-interface developer, i had to develop both the server and the client, and if another client makes better use of the network then so be it. i have no problem with someone else writing a better client. we have no problem with people using nicotine instead. i would also like to address some of the anger regarding nicotine being a much better client. as for bots flooding, i can only recommend private rooms on the new server for now, and i’ll be adding selective private messaging features to the next NS client that will allow you to only receive PMs from friends and ask for confirmation (or ignore altogether) from anyone else. the best i can recommend to you right now is to either use both clients at the same time, or use the new client by default and try the older one when you can’t find what you’re looking for. i understand your frustration regarding the two separate servers, but merging them is just not an option that’s technically available to us right now. i’ve also set the initial room join message on the main server to advertise it and sent an admin message to do the same. Well, i took the “test” out of the client’s name and renamed it NS (new server). There’s an interesting posting from nir, the owner and operator of SoulSeek, on the forum: This app seems to have fallen off the radar of the big sites, since I’m one the first posting about this release 🙂 I still use it very often. Both NS and original clients may be installed and run side by side. After more than six months, there is a new test version out of the filesharing program SoulSeek! Hooray for weird versioning by the way ‘NS 12d’ … the NS (new server) client offers numerous optimizations and bug fixes, and a fair number of new features over the original client.