The Lounge Review

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Modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client. Modern features brought to IRC. Push notifications, link previews, new message markers, and more bring IRC to the 21st century.

SpecsUpdate

PlatformsLinux for server and gui is progressive web app

MediaYes

Message historyOptional

Proxy serverYes

Push NotificationsYes

GUIYes

SSLYes

Multi-serverYes

SASLYes

EmoticonsYes

CTPCYes

opensourceYes

Multi-accountYes

MULTI-CHANNELYes

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Pros

Pro
Free

Pro
Highly maintained

You can see the activity here. For example 62 pull requests were merged from 2018-02-17 to 2018-02-24.

Pro
Hosted on the web

Always up.

Cons

Con
Server, not an application

This is a server, not an application, so there's that extra bit of overhead.

Con
Uses NodeJS

Javascript...

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Pros

Pro Free

Pro Highly maintained

Pro Hosted on the web