QUIK bug fixes and feats that also apply to Messages

[xmready]

The following list of recent fixes to QUIK seem to also apply to Messages. I'm not familiar enough to make the changes myself, but you can look over these PRs and decide:

octoshrimpy/quik#634
octoshrimpy/quik#635
octoshrimpy/quik#640
octoshrimpy/quik#642
octoshrimpy/quik#660
octoshrimpy/quik#662

[danascape]

@xmready I see that yes, many of these are present on our end as well, I will checkout those pull requests for next release