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The Lounge is the first app to make me really use IRC. The ability to have it running on my home server and be easily accessible from all the devices in my house through a nice, mobile optimized web interface is an absolute delight.

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If that amazes you, you’ll be even more impressed with Matrix + Riot/Element and IRC-bridges (plus lots of other bridges of course).

I'm already a Matrix/Element user, and I honestly don't see the point in using a bridge for my personal IRC usage. I think it's cool for groups that want to maintain IRC after switching to Matrix, but it feels like it's a bit too much complexity to use Matrix as a UI for IRC.

Fair enough.

For me, Matrix was not just about bridging IRC, but about unifying communications. And when you first decide to do that, bridging IRC too becomes a no-brainer.

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