Pros:
- Cleaner, easier to navigate interface
- Free servers for more permanent group chat things (way easier to hop in and out of chats)
- You can actually have different nicknames on each server if you want
- Is actually well built and doesn’t make your computer yearn for death
Stuff coming down the pipeline soon according to devs:
- Video chat
- Linux client
Cons:
- All your friends aren’t on it
- But you can change that
Download it. It’s great and it’s only getting better. It’s aimed at gamers but it has nearly all the functionality of Skype and then some.