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When comparing IceChat vs The Lounge, the Slant community recommends IceChat for most people. In the question“What are the best IRC clients for Windows?” IceChat is ranked 12th while The Lounge is ranked 18th.
Specs
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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 Capable of connecting to multiple servers and channels all at once
Pro IceChat is a very user friendly program that can be setup in a matter of minutes
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
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Con Server, not an application
This is a server, not an application, so there's that extra bit of overhead.
Con Uses NodeJS
Javascript...