Not OP but I can say that the times I have submitted a link to TheLounge were the times people would be saying {x} is better than IRC because it has chat persis

Not OP but I can say that the times I have submitted a link to TheLounge were the times people would be saying {x} is better than IRC because it has chat persistence. TheLounge in private mode has chat persistence. I felt it was useful to share because in my opinion there should be more self-hosted censorship resistant options available to people for what it's worth. Another nice feature is simplicity. On Alpine Linux I was able to set up a working demo of NGIRCD+TheLounge+Nginx in about 10 minutes though I already had Nginx installed with a cert so I guess that number is cheating. It's probably more like 15 minutes. I would have preferred setting up a demo of UnrealIRCD vs NGIRCD but that code is still in the testing repo on Alpine and I don't want to assume people are going to compile something. [Edit] It appears thelounge is not in Alpine 3.17 but remains in 3.16. Maybe they ran into a dependency bug.