Previously I ran the Slack desktop app on Windows/Mac/Android and for IRC Hexchat on Windows, Textual on macOS and nothing on Android (I couldn't find a good IR

Previously I ran the Slack desktop app on Windows/Mac/Android and for IRC Hexchat on Windows, Textual on macOS and nothing on Android (I couldn't find a good IRC client). A ZNC instance on the server was keeping these IRC clients in sync. Using Slack over IRC would have been interesting but then I would lose the rich inline previews of links/media on Windows because Hexchat doesn't have these and I don't know any other standalone IRC client for Windows which has this feature. Then I switches to IRCCloud and now I use it for both Slack and IRC: - Better synced state across clients compared to ZNC - The Chrome tab needs ~600 MB RAM which is less than Slack + extra IRC client - Unified chat UI across Windows, Mac AND Android :) - inline previews like Slack Running my own ZNC instance on a server was not a big hassle but its buffer replays where annoying and depending on the settings it would DOS my IRC clients for several minutes because they where busy processing the incoming buffer backlog.