The Lounge Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Ask HN: What are your favorite IRC clients/channels

  My favourite irc client is TheLounge: https://thelounge.chat/ Regarding the liveness... It'll likely never die, mostly due to its simplicity I think. Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1782/. - Source: Hacker News / 22 days ago

• IRC Today hosted IRC bouncer

  For self-hosted, look at https://thelounge.chat/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• IRC Will Never Die

  If you know IRC well enough to want to mandate it for your company, you can probably set the server up in an hour or three. You can then install https://thelounge.chat/ and have your employees log into that for browser and mobile apps vs. Native IRC clients. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• IRC Will Never Die

  I was sort of on the fence for whether to keep using IRC, for years. I used to have Trillian and later Pidgin as a multi-network chat client, and when using one of those, it makes perfect sense to idle in IRC channels. Then the networks got so complex that multi-network clients no longer worked, and now everything sucks and I have to open 3 different browser tabs (Google, Slack, Discord) on my workstation, iPad,... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Libera Chat Channels by Number of Users

  I use https://thelounge.chat/, it requires self-hosting somewhere, but it gives you a discord-like experience. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Ask HN: What's Wrong with IRC?

  Yes, I assume that https://thelounge.chat/ exists. As to cost/maintenance... There are no free lunches. You can pay with your money and your data, or your money and your time. I happen to find the ladder preferable and frankly cheaper than people think. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?

  I‘m using https://thelounge.chat/ as PWA on all my devices and it works very good. Maybe you can contact them or look around the source yourself. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Simplicity of IRC

  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 / about 1 year ago

• Show HN: GodotOS: A Fake Operating System Interface Made in the Godot Engine

  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 / over 1 year ago

• Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum

  > 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 / over 1 year ago

• IRC Is the Only Viable Chat Protocol

  You might check out The Lounge. https://thelounge.chat. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• IRC Is the Only Viable Chat Protocol

  > 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 / almost 2 years ago

• Matrix 2.0: How we’re making Matrix go voom

  For the other layers one can front-end IRC with TheLounge [1][2] or Convos [3][4]. TheLounge only persists history in private mode meaning that users are created in that front-end and chat messages are in Redis. For small networks or groups of friends this is probably fine. Notably missing is voice chat. I use the Mumble client [5] with the Murmur or uMurmur [6] server which is light-weight enough to run on... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• I'm trying to set up a client device that will remain connected to a server that I can remotely log into

  As another self-hosted solution, I quite like TheLounge (https://thelounge.chat). Source: over 2 years ago

• mIRC ended its lifetime license agreement with all who purchased its software 10 years out | Poc Network // Tech

  There's also web based clients now. I use The Lounge which has URL and image preview. There's also Convos in the same genre. Source: over 2 years ago

• IRCv3 2022 Spec round-up

  FWIW TheLounge [1] and Convos [2] can front-end an IRC server giving it much of the look of a modern client and also chat persistence when using TheLounge in private mode. The trade-off in my opinion is scalability. With a bog standard IRCD I can handle tens of thousands of clients per node. Adding web persistent chat adds memory usage. [1] - https://github.com/thelounge https://thelounge.chat/ [2] -... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Discord Will Not Help

  This won't likely help after the fact but I would suggest separating Artwork discussion into their own Discord server and then move all business partners and certainly financial information discussion with employees into private self-hosted servers so that one has control over the server, chat filters, IP/domain blocks and even approved/denied web links. It's not perfect and some may not be happy about... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Can Mastodon Survive Europe’s Digital Services Act?

  I am pretty sure nobody except nerds knows what IRC is right now. It's long since been supplanted by user-friendlier group chat services. I agree with this. Like I mentioned this is slowly changing with web front-ends to IRC like TheLounge. NGIRCD [1] + TheLounge [2] take all of about 10 minutes to set up and then maybe another 10 minutes to tie that into and configure IRC services such as Anope. I would... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Private group chat with no registration

  UnrealIRCD front-ended by TheLounge web interface that has history would fit what you described, but the setup is not super quick. No registration would be required, TheLounge provides chat persistence. Both are open source. Visitors would not need to be technical and would not need to know IRC commands. Rooms can be deleted by the channel operator. TheLounge is browser based and does not require any... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Eww: ElKowars wacky widgets

  IRC is a mature, extensible, open protocol, with a wide variety of server and client implementations to suit many use cases, servers can be self-hosted and federated, and modern web-based clients like The Lounge or Convos offer a user experience equivalent to Discord, Slack, etc. Source: over 2 years ago

• Self-Hosted LAN Matrix/Synapse Server

  Anyway, if it's all local and plain text, IRC is pretty easy. Bread and butter is group chat, but easy enough to private message as well. Ergo (https://ergo.chat/about) is very easy to get going on the server side. And TheLounge (https://thelounge.chat/) is a mobile friendly web client that you can have users authenticate against. Very easy to configure with a SDN like ZeroTier, Nebula, etc. Source: over 2 years ago