[xPaw]

You only need to setup Lounge once, it supports multiple users at the same time. A non geeky person should have no trouble joining a channel.

[bkircher]

Oh, wow. I see. With push notifications, mobile clients, TLS encryption this _could_ work in a company setting …provided you keep logs and make search results available for staff, too. Cool. Thanks for the links!

[MaxLeiter]

Logs are kept as text files and in a MySQL database (as of v3, which should be released soon™)

Searching logs is currently being worked on, you can see an MVP here - https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge/pull/2627