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I use https://thelounge.chat/ https://thelounge.chat/, it requires self-hosting somewhere, but it gives you a discord-like experience.

sva_ 2y ago
That's pretty neat. But it doesn't seem to work as a bouncer keeping the messages when you're offline? edit: nvm, it does
- mhils 2y ago
  It does. It also optionally supports notifications if someone messages you while you have all tabs closed (using https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notification https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notificatio...).
- baumschubser 2y ago
  I think it does. On the start page they state "Always connected. Remain connected to IRC servers while you are offline. Forget about bouncers. Resume where you left off on any device." and in their docs they say "For an optimal experience, The Lounge must be installed on a server that runs 24/7." So I guess you just let that server running and it serves you the client as well as keeping you logged in in IRC.
drdo 2y ago
I've used thelounge for a while but I'm baffled by how slow searching is.
myself248 2y ago
TheLounge is fantastic. I've got it on a pi in the basement on a battery, and I just VPN into home from anywhere. Been running 3-ish years I think. It works surprisingly well from mobile browsers, too.
- HumblyTossed 2y ago
  > I've got it on a pi in the basement on a battery, and I just VPN into home from anywhere. Been running 3-ish years I think. That's a _really_ good battery!
  - universa1 2y ago
    or maybe he just put it on top of the battery? ;-)
  - myself248 2y ago
    Yeah, that's an oversimplification. It's a rack with a bunch of ports to plug in whatever 12-volt batteries aren't currently in use elsewhere. So when I retire one from the car, or a solar experiment, or replace a whole pile of 'em from a UPS and most are kaput but a few are still viable, they all end up on that rack, in parallel. (With fuses and stuff, of course. And I precharge each battery so it closely matches the float voltage before plugging it in.) Presently I think there's like 30-40 amp-hours worth of lead and lithium sitting there, all charged by a little Meanwell RS-25-12 or something. I don't exactly remember, but the photo looks familiar. (25 watts at 12 volts tweaked up to 13.85 volts, so, roughly 2 amps.) That powers the cable modem, wifi router, service pi, and a RIPE ATLAS probe. The first two eat 12-ish volts and have SMPS input stages so they're not picky about the -ish, so they just run directly from the battery rail. The latter two have DC-DC converters feeding them (the venerable MC34063 or something similar). Combined, their draw is just shy of an amp at 12 volts, so the rack with its current fleet of batteries can run several days with no AC input. Realistically if power fails, I usually start the generator after just a few hours, so the batteries never actually drain much. If I can find a good place to mount a solar panel that doesn't annoy the landlord, I might be able to unplug the Mean Well and run it independently indefinitely.
    - progval 2y ago
      Don't you also need some sort of battery controller to stop charging batteries once they are full?
chadsix 2y ago
And you can self host it on your own computer with 1-click [1] [1] https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/cloudseeder https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/cloudseeder

sva_ 2y ago

That's pretty neat. But it doesn't seem to work as a bouncer keeping the messages when you're offline? edit: nvm, it does

mhils 2y ago
It does. It also optionally supports notifications if someone messages you while you have all tabs closed (using https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notification https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notificatio...).
baumschubser 2y ago
I think it does. On the start page they state "Always connected. Remain connected to IRC servers while you are offline. Forget about bouncers. Resume where you left off on any device." and in their docs they say "For an optimal experience, The Lounge must be installed on a server that runs 24/7." So I guess you just let that server running and it serves you the client as well as keeping you logged in in IRC.

drdo 2y ago

I've used thelounge for a while but I'm baffled by how slow searching is.

myself248 2y ago

TheLounge is fantastic. I've got it on a pi in the basement on a battery, and I just VPN into home from anywhere. Been running 3-ish years I think. It works surprisingly well from mobile browsers, too.

HumblyTossed 2y ago
> I've got it on a pi in the basement on a battery, and I just VPN into home from anywhere. Been running 3-ish years I think. That's a _really_ good battery!
- universa1 2y ago
  or maybe he just put it on top of the battery? ;-)
- myself248 2y ago
  Yeah, that's an oversimplification. It's a rack with a bunch of ports to plug in whatever 12-volt batteries aren't currently in use elsewhere. So when I retire one from the car, or a solar experiment, or replace a whole pile of 'em from a UPS and most are kaput but a few are still viable, they all end up on that rack, in parallel. (With fuses and stuff, of course. And I precharge each battery so it closely matches the float voltage before plugging it in.) Presently I think there's like 30-40 amp-hours worth of lead and lithium sitting there, all charged by a little Meanwell RS-25-12 or something. I don't exactly remember, but the photo looks familiar. (25 watts at 12 volts tweaked up to 13.85 volts, so, roughly 2 amps.) That powers the cable modem, wifi router, service pi, and a RIPE ATLAS probe. The first two eat 12-ish volts and have SMPS input stages so they're not picky about the -ish, so they just run directly from the battery rail. The latter two have DC-DC converters feeding them (the venerable MC34063 or something similar). Combined, their draw is just shy of an amp at 12 volts, so the rack with its current fleet of batteries can run several days with no AC input. Realistically if power fails, I usually start the generator after just a few hours, so the batteries never actually drain much. If I can find a good place to mount a solar panel that doesn't annoy the landlord, I might be able to unplug the Mean Well and run it independently indefinitely.
  - progval 2y ago
    Don't you also need some sort of battery controller to stop charging batteries once they are full?

chadsix 2y ago

And you can self host it on your own computer with 1-click [1] [1] https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/cloudseeder https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/cloudseeder