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Re:HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer by Fauntleroy on Thursday March 21, 2013 @03:47PM (#5418346)
I have plans for something like that in the future, but first I'd like to perfect the client itself (a persistent connection would require a server).

For now you can always try out https://www.irccloud.com or https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway

Re:HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer by glomph on Thursday March 21, 2013 @07:35PM (#5420158)
https://github.com/leedo/alice is another one. Used to be hosted but they stopped running it.