This was meant to be a shortish bit on a couple of points on a decent IRC (Internet Relay Chat) set-up, including: some sort of persistence (a “bouncer” or the always-connected server) use with some sort of IRC client in Emacs some sort of reasonable mobile phone client It ended up longer than I intended. tldr Using some of the more IRCv3 tools, particularly the cluster of things by Simon Ser and co (soju, goguma, gamja - see below) makes for a much better IRC experience, and easily supports synchronised access across multiple devices (e.