feat: enhance chat functionality with auto-join, persistent read positions, and theme border customization

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 # v0.2.13

-A visual overhaul of the chat client: messages now line up in a WeeChat-style column layout with a timestamp gutter, right-aligned nicks, and a vertical rail; every user gets a stable nickname color; day boundaries and unread positions are marked with horizontal rules; the status bar gains an irssi-style activity segment and an animated connecting spinner; and an ASCII-art welcome banner greets you before you join a channel. Modern polish, old IRC soul.
+A visual overhaul of the chat client — WeeChat-style column layout, per-user nick colors, date rules, unread markers, an activity status segment, and an ASCII welcome banner — plus reliable cross-channel notifications: the client now joins all your channels at connect so unread counts and @mentions light up everywhere, and read positions persist across restarts so activity that happened while you were offline still shows. Modern polish, old IRC soul.

 ## New Features

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 - **Mention-aware channel list** — a channel where you were @mentioned turns orange in the channel list (name and unread badge), escalating above the cyan plain-unread highlight. The highlight clears when you view the channel.
 - **Welcome banner** — with no channel selected (fresh start, or after disconnecting) the chat pane shows a gold-gradient ASCII "ECHOHUB" logo with the version and key hints, instead of an empty box. Narrow panes get a compact variant.
 - **Rounded frame borders** — the channels, chat, input, and users panels draw with rounded corners.
+- **Auto-join all channels at connect** — the client now joins every channel it lists for you (public channels and prior memberships) as part of connecting, so message events flow for all of them: unread badges, @mention highlights, and the status-bar activity segment work without having to open each channel first. Protected channels you've never entered are skipped silently (joining them stays a prompted, manual action), and channels you `/leave` are remembered and excluded until you join them again.
+- **Read positions survive restarts** — the client persists the last message you read per channel (locally, per server). On the next connect it compares that against fetched history, so messages that arrived while you were offline still produce unread counts, mention highlights, and a correctly placed "new messages" marker.
+- **Theme-tinted frame borders** — themes can now color the window frame borders independently of text via a new optional `border` section (hex values supported). The Transparent and TransparentLight themes use it to draw dim gray borders instead of stark white ones, for a subtler, glassier look. Custom theme JSON files without a `border` section keep their base colors.

 ## Bug Fixes

 - The @mention highlight no longer drops off the second and later lines of a long mention message — wrapped continuation lines now inherit the highlight.
 - The unread-position marker is re-anchored after a channel switch reloads history, instead of being wiped by the reload before you could see it.
+- Cached room keys for end-to-end encrypted channels no longer disappear from the config on reconnect. Saving the server entry after a successful connect replaced it wholesale, wiping the cached keys (and forcing a passphrase re-entry on the next launch); the entry is now updated in place.
+- A failed channel rejoin after a reconnect (e.g. a channel deleted while you were away) no longer aborts rejoining the remaining channels.
+- Client config file access is now serialized across threads (token refresh, room-key cache, and read-position checkpoints all write it), preventing rare config corruption.