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This seems like a promising project, but right now it still is lacking some features that are very nice to have in my opinion:

* Colored nick-names

* Theme-ability, even if only through user-provided CSS overrides

* Nickname autocompletion when hitting tab, preferably with some logic such as "you talked to this user recently"

* A locked down mode in which only authorised users can connect

That said, I really like the fact that you can search the history right from the client. Since I am not using this in production, maybe someone with more experience can tell me about how well it scales?

Also I feel that the separation of channels and DMs with users is very sensible.

I personally use The Lounge (https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge) for my web IRC needs, which solves my main issues outlined above, but doesn't have searchable history nor separated users and channels (there might be a setting for this that I haven't found yet).

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> doesn't have searchable history nor separated users and channels (there might be a setting for this that I haven't found yet).

Yes it does: https://thelounge.chat/docs/server/users.html

I didn't express myself very clearly, I'm afraid. I didn't mean separated users as in user accounts, but that there is no visual separation between channels I join in a network and the users I open direct messages with.

They have different icons by default.

If that's not enough, I'm sure you could write some CSS to make the difference stand out even further. There's a custom CSS box in settings that you can put your styles in easily.

Thank you, I'm aware of that and currently using the custom CSS for some things. I realize I didn't say exactly what I meant to say (again; sorry about that)...

By visual separation I meant for example a vertical line with all channels being above that line and all users below it. I realize I can rearrange them manually, but I frequently join/quit channels and message new users in some networks and have that happen automatically would be a "nice to have" feature for me.

Clearly this didn't bother me enough to actually implement it or even open an issue with a feature request, so please do take this with a grain of salt.

Thank you for working on this awesome project and responding to my feedback!

I've been using The Lounge too, but noticed that my IRC sessions often time out silently and don't reconnect automatically, which is a dealbreaker since I don't check IRC that often.

This shouldn’t happened in recent versions. What version are you on?

What do you mean separated users and channels?

Maybe seperate channel info and chat messages (like e.g. kvirc enables to do)?

I should have been more clear about that. I meant a visual separation between the channels I join in a network and the users in the same network that I open DMs with.

I realize I can achieve this by hand, but I frequently join/leave channels and open new DMs and it would just be a nice to have thing for it to happen automatically.

So far it hasn't bothered me enough to actually open a feature request, so take this with a grain of salt.

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