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Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by Scene_Cast2 on Thursday July 26, 2018 @11:05PM (#17623161)
IRC is horrible on phones (shitty history when you drop out of an internet connection, no cross-device unread-count synchronization, no encryption or login, etc). There are add-ons that try to fix that, but it's still a giant pain.

I personally love Riot and Matrix as a "modern IRC".

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Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by xPaw on Friday July 27, 2018 @04:21AM (#17624388)
The Lounge is an IRC client that solves the problems you describe (persistence on any device, synchronised unread counters, push notifications) - https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge

It does require having your own server to host it on though.

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Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by linuxftw on Friday July 27, 2018 @03:05PM (#17628334)
Hadn't seen this before. Looks nice. I tried the demo, smooth other than the /j is not an alias for /join, which I think is an obvious oversight.
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