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CLUSTER CHAT-CLIENT-CONNECTED · 8 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2018-11-17

Persistent IRC clients

The cluster consists of IRC clients that keep users continuously connected via server-side bouncers or persistent cores, providing session sync, push notifications, and cross-device message history. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from, with only 3 dated entries before the index start, so the cluster either predates the index or most members are undated. Traction is led by motd, Quasseldroid, and IRCCloud, each with 0 stars, indicating early-stage activity.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUL 2013: 1JUN 2014: 1NOV 2018: 1JUN 2020: 1AUG 2026: 4
JUL 2013AUG 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 5 hand-coded · 3 unlabelled

Operator · 2 commercial · 6 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 8 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01motd0★17 daysliveopen sourceIRC chat client that connects directly to servers or bouncers, with multi-network support, synchronized history, and push delivery.
  2. 02IRCCloud0★5 molivecommercialMobile chat app that keeps users connected to IRC channels with cloud-synced history and push notifications.
  3. 03Quasseldroid0★1 moliveopen sourceAndroid IRC client that connects to a Quassel core for persistent chat history and push notifications.
  4. 04IRCCloud0★unknownlivehand-codedcommercialHosted chat client that keeps users continuously connected to IRC networks and syncs message history across devices.
  5. 05Quassel Client0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCross-platform distributed IRC client that allows clients to attach to a persistent central core for continuous chat sessions.
  6. 06The Lounge0★unknownlivehand-codedopen sourceSelf-hosted web-based IRC client that stays connected while offline, syncs sessions across devices, and adds push notifications and link previews.
  7. 07Convos0★unknownlivehand-codedopen sourceBrowser-based IRC client with a persistent server-side bouncer that keeps users connected to chat channels even when their browser is closed.
  8. 08irccloud-bin0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceHosted chat client that keeps users continuously connected to Internet Relay Chat channels so messages are never missed.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.