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I have started using IRC again since I bought a subscription to irccloud.com. Before that I had stopped because I found the clients too annoying, especially lacking support for using multiple devices concurrently and buffering up messages while disconnected.

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> especially lacking support for using multiple devices concurrently and buffering up messages while disconnected.

Yup, this is why IRC is dying. Unfortunately the vacuum has let proprietary services like Discord and Slack take over, just like GitHub now owns open source infrastructure. We'll come to rue the day we let this happen (see: SourceForge). Hopefully Matrix and GitLab will be ready and waiting when that happens.

if anyone is looking for self hosting, https://thelounge.chat/ is a pretty good client (have used it for a few years)

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