IRC as a protocol is indeed incredibly simple and easy to get started with. Years ago did discover this when I was able to make [this atrocity](https://github.com/creesch/discordIRCd . But, that is only easy for technically inclined folks. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Excellent idea! You'll have a mature, open standard protocol under the hood, with no vendor lock-in, excellent extensibility, and great modern frontends like The Lounge (https://thelounge.chat/) or Convos (https://convos.chat/) to choose from (and you can choose). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

> It’s 2024, people aren’t going to go out of their way to setup “bouncers” to keep up with conversation that happens when they’re not online or leave their computer running 24/7. You can just set up something like The Lounge [0]. [0] https://thelounge.chat/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

You might check out The Lounge. https://thelounge.chat. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

> But all of the modern services like Teams, Slack and Discord, have seamlessness between client devices as their first priority. Can't speak for the others, but Teams is really hit-or-miss. Missed notifications, missed messages, out of order messages. Then it appears to be fixed for three months only to happen again. It mostly seems to happen on Android. In general, you're right, multi-device appeared to have... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

Not to be confused with https://libera.chat/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

If you're looking for a clan/team to play with for TNNT 2023, you can post here. You can also ask in #tnnt on libera.chat IRC or #nethack-tnnt on Discord (roguelikes). Source: 8 months ago

Before I forget - TNNT website is https://tnnt.org, clan sign up is at the 'login' link (use your in-game user/pass to log in). Real time game events and chat - channel #tnnt on IRC (libera.chat) or #nethack-tnnt on discord. Source: 8 months ago

Now that the Matrix bridge for libera.chat is closed, I'm trying to use irc the proper way with an irc client. Source: 9 months ago

I would recommend https://libera.chat/. There are a ton of great channels: ##rust, #linux, #networking, #security to mention a few. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago