Guys, I will be off for the next two days. The Jabber server will come online on Saturday or Sunday. Jonesd, if you want you can do a quick cleanup on the source of QuarkBar's latest version as a start and push it to Github so we at least can have new clients connecting again. I will try to take my DGWv2 test from INKcoin to QuarkBar on the weekend and have a look if I can find some seasoned C++ crypto dev in academics willing to take a gander.
I will also setup a GIT server for the initial development of the new version. Currently everything on Github is public and I do not use any payment method offered by them, so we will have to make do with this privately hosted server.
While we are at it I can setup a lot more servers we might need. I am taking suggestions here.