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When comparing Trillian vs The Lounge, the Slant community recommends The Lounge for most people. In the question“What are the best IRC clients for Windows?” The Lounge is ranked 18th while Trillian is ranked 22nd.
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CTPCYes
EmoticonsYes
GUIYes
MULTI-CHANNELYes
MediaYes
Message historyOptional
Multi-accountYes
Multi-serverYes
PlatformsLinux for server and gui is progressive web app
Proxy serverYes
Push NotificationsYes
SASLYes
SSLYes
opensourceYes
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Pros
Pro In-house server support
You can set up a dedicated server to hold your communications. Great for businesses that want to build their own infrastructure.
Pro Multiple networks in one place
Among them Yahoo!, Facebook, Skype, Google, AIM, ICQ, XMPP, MSN. You can have multiple accounts associated with each service.
Pro Group chat
Trillian to Trillian group chat is available.
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 Supports all dead services.
Con Server, not an application
This is a server, not an application, so there's that extra bit of overhead.
Con Uses NodeJS
Javascript...
