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I played around with this and love it. Setting up to work with a locally running ircd was a breeze (in contrast to setting up the ircd itself). It even allows you upload pictures which are stored and accessed via the embedded web server. You do need an optional database installed if you want conversation history to persist, and this is needed to really make it useful on mobile.

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> You do need an optional database installed if you want conversation history to persist

sqlite installs by default (unless something went wrong), but it's only required to persist between restarts (or leaving and reopening a channel). But just having it running will keep history in memory (up to a limit), so not strictly required to have it work between devices.

Hey, sorry for the tangent, but while I have you here - would you ever consider adding a hosted option for The Longue? I might be interested in collaborating on that on behalf of sourcehut.

I have no interest in that.

Pity. I think the Lounge has a great and easy to use interface for new IRC users, and a hosted option would be the cherry on top for making it easy to get into IRC.

Well nothing stops you from doing that yourself.

Yeah, I've looked into it a few times. Have to manage priorities. Would've been helpful to have some cooperation with upstream if you guys were into it.

Irccloud does that already, no im not affiliated, I'm a happy thelounge user

I learned of the Lounge when I was looking at the hosting panel of some random rent-an-instance service and it was in there alongside Wordpress and Nextcloud and stuff, and I said "what's this Lounge thing I've never heard of?"

I ended up hosting it on a raspi in my basement, but there are definitely services out there who will host it for you. I have no idea who that was now, though!

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