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this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2025
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Eh, everything that tries to "improve" on IRC makes everything more complicated. I have a thelounge installation running that's connected to our small IRC network. When I want people to chat I drop them a link to it (maybe with a room name) and it drops them right in. thelounge has some improvements to stock IRC (pictures, videos, and links visible in chat), but some of the more advanced functions still demand an account (e.g. there is an inbuilt persistent buffer, but that one is only visible to accounts). I have it running under thelounge.wilderland.ovh and it will drop by default into the #welcome channel.
We also are running our own videochat servers with galène (for ttrpgs), but those don't have a persistent text chat
That sounds amazing, but if I were to self-host it, I'm kinda worried about how it deals with private messages (I didn't find it mentioned in the docs) - I would like to not have access to private messages.
I have no idea how IRC deals with that stuff. Soulseek has an IRC-like chat (I'm not sure if it's IRC or something else they created) and private messages are stored locally instead of on the server, which seems ideal.
That 'not have access to private messages' is the complex thing that requires encryption done well. It is extremely complicated to make available to non technical people. No perfect solution presents itself.