My personal preference would be to use UnrealIRCD [1a][1b] + Anope services [2a][2b] and front-end it with TheLounge [3a][3b]. One could modify TheLounge web f

My personal preference would be to use UnrealIRCD [1a][1b] + Anope services [2a][2b] and front-end it with TheLounge [3a][3b]. One could modify TheLounge web front-end to look just like Discord or Slack if one were so inclined. Unreal is the most flexible and stable chat daemon I have ever used. It has had decades of battle hardening and is feature rich. Most of the features are modules that can be disabled entirely. There are more chat options here [4]. [1a] - https://www.unrealircd.org/ https://www.unrealircd.org/ [1b]- https://github.com/unrealircd/unrealircd/ https://github.com/unrealircd/unrealircd/ [2a] - https://anope.org/ https://anope.org/ [2b] - https://github.com/anope/anope/ https://github.com/anope/anope/ [3a] - https://thelounge.chat/ https://thelounge.chat/ [3b] - https://github.com/thelounge https://github.com/thelounge [4] - https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_the_second_half_of_2021/ https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_th...