Grove is primarily an IRC server for your business (the client is tangential), so please don't give up! Actually, feel free to send me an email - I'd love to help you get your web client working smoothly with the Grove server.
Something that works with existing irc servers would still be fantastic.
Yeah, the cient looks pretty fantastic, but the apparent limitation of working with Grove-hosted servers does limit its usefulness.
Don't let it get you too discouraged- Leah doesn't last very long with any one project so you'll be fine in a few months.
Even if this is true (I have no idea whether it is), making this comment here and at this time is in extremely poor form. You should be ashamed of your utter lack of simple etiquette.