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by anyfoo 709 days ago
Without an offline history and sane support for multiple clients, it does not really have the same utility. I’m using IRC, but oh my gosh is it a pain to set up and maintain. Bouncers are terrible, so the alternative is IRC clients that basically run their own little server that I connect to.
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>Without an offline history and sane support for multiple clients, it does not really have the same utility. I’m using IRC, but oh my gosh is it a pain to set up and maintain. Bouncers are terrible, so the alternative is IRC clients that basically run their own little server that I connect to.

I agree, but the IRCv3 spec rectifies most of this by implementing chat history and some other niceties, while modern ircds such as Ergo implement server-side bouncer functionality so that you can have multiple clients connected.

It's not there yet, which is why I used the term "dream".

That indeed sounds promising.