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IRC Clients
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I use The Lounge, it's a self hosted server/bouncer that you use through a web UI. That makes it so I can stay online 24/7, and can access IRC from any device including my phone. It even supports push notifications, so when someone pings me on IRC, I get notified on my phone and can go open up the client and look at my chats. It's pretty good!
Not as lightweight as a terminal client, but keeping a Firefox tab open for it isn't that memory hungry. Negligible when you have dozens of tabs open and a few Electron apps anyway.
Seconding this. Among all the web IRC clients I have tried, The Lounge is the best, and the experience on mobile is pretty good.