[dmitriid]

> For instance, it's not hard to slap mature GUI clients on company laptops to access a company IRCd

And which mature client would that be?

And which clients would work for Linux laptops, and MacOS laptops, and Windows laptops? And also company-issued Android phones and iPhones?

And who would be maintaining the servers for IRC with all the necessary things to make it meet expectations in the modern world?

[kuschku]

Quassel? Mature and works on everything except iOS if you use the split client/bouncer mode.

iOS is only not properly supported because the devtools and hardware are far too expensive for me to finance.

If you wanna deploy an ircd, there's some modern ones like ergo. Deploying ergo and the quasselcore bouncer can be easily done with a helm chart on your k8s cluster, you can even get Prometheus metrics out.