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Mibbit vs The Lounge
When comparing Mibbit 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 Mibbit is ranked 19th.
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 No download needed
Pro Simple interface
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 No one minding the store
Many issues not working and never updated to a working IRC.
Con Not able to use the same nickname after log-out from the client
Con No one minding the store
Many issues not working and never updated to a working IRC.
Con Server, not an application
This is a server, not an application, so there's that extra bit of overhead.
Con Uses NodeJS
Javascript...