Improve startup connection, reconnection and plugin state handling
Closes chatty#138 (closed) and chatty#145 (closed) in conjunction with chatty!59 (merged)
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Closes chatty#138 (closed) and chatty#145 (closed) in conjunction with chatty!59 (merged)