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Can you also in a nutshell tell me/us how the 'Always connected. Remains connected to IRC servers while you are offline.' works? Can't find much on the site itself, and tbh don't want to scroll the source code.

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The NodeJS backend keeps connected and syncs up the messages to the frontend when you reconnect. The actual IRC happens on your server, the frontend has a separate API for fetching messages (it doesn't do IRC directly).

aaah okay so it functions as a bouncer :) was a bit confusing as they mention 'forget' bouncers :)

thanks for the update

You run Lounge on a server that remains connected. You then connect to Lounge with mobile apps or a URL.

The official site is more useful than the GitHub repo in this regard: https://thelounge.chat/docs

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