I should add to this for completeness sake that TheLounge in public mode, anyone can join but history is lost when they disconnect. In private mode history is

I should add to this for completeness sake that TheLounge in public mode, anyone can join but history is lost when they disconnect. In private mode history is kept but you have to pre-populate users with a password they would change after logging in. i.e. create alice and bob with a default password and email or text it to them. Sadly there is no self service registration page yet. I had a live demo of ngircd and thelounge which all together took me about 9 minutes to set up. On Alpine Linux this was just "apk add ngircd thelounge" then edit my nginx proxy config, edit 2 config files, start the services.