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I can't understand if it's an IRC web client only, or both a client and server.

The server part of Convos is like an IRC bouncer, but instead of supporting the IRC protocol from the client side, it has a HTTP/WebSocket interface that talks to the Convos frontend.

So Convos keeps your connection, so even if you close the web browser, you will still receive messages and you can see the history once you open your browser again.

If you stop the Convos server, then you will also be disconnected from the IRC server.

It is an IRC client exposing a HTTP server to be able to use IRC from a browser.

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