Just a heads up. If you suddenly feel that IRC is too feature free or outdated for your needs, have some courtesy and consider a modern, federated and open solution instead.
Register matrix.org accounts there. There's a web client, desktop clients and mobile clients (called Riot.im). It's open source and federated. And, there are IRC bridges!
https://movim.eu/ is another option (has a fancy web client, android & linux client and of course supports any XMPP client)
You don't have to host your own server.