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If you need help, or want to help others by answering questions they might have, #thelounge is our official IRC channel on Freenode (chat.freenode.net:6697 on a secure connection).
{:.center} Click here to join it using our demo
Additionally, a few community-operated channels let you chat in a language you are more comfortable:
- 🇩🇪 German:
#thelounge-de - 🇫🇷🇨🇦 French:
#thelounge-fr - 🇳🇱 Dutch:
#thelounge-nl - 🇩🇰🇳🇴🇸🇪 Danish / Norwegian / Swedish:
#thelounge-scandinavia
Let us know if you wish to help operating a language-specific channel!
If your question cannot be answered on the IRC channels above, feel free to browse existing questions on Stack Overflow or ask a new question.
You can financially help us by donating to our collective. Every little bit helps, and we appreciate even the smallest contributions.
We thank our existing backers who have contributed various amounts of money in order to help support The Lounge:
Our contributing guide contains all the details you need to report an issue or contribute to the code.
Make sure to browse the other projects in our GitHub organization as well as other related projects from the community that might need your help.
Security-related issues follow a dedicated process that is highlighted in our Responsible Disclosure of Security Vulnerabilities. Do not publicly report security vulnerabilities.
On 16 May 2018, Al McKinlay and Jérémie Astori presented The Lounge on the 484th episode of FLOSS Weekly (1h05). Here is a quick preview:
Some additional articles and tutorials:
- IRC is Not Dead - 27 February 2020
- 🇮🇹 The Lounge – Self-hosted web IRC client by Andrea Draghetti - 21 July 2018
- Best Self-Hosted IRC Clients by David Morelo - 16 July 2018
- The Lounge: self-hosted IRC server setup guide by Mitesh Shah - 10 January 2018
- The Lounge, self hosted web IRC client by Karibu - 25 March 2017
- Install The Lounge IRC Client on Ubuntu 18.04 - 17 February 2020
Request a free sticker pack here. They go on a first come, first served basis, so no promises!
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Check out our branded apparel and accessories available in our shop on Threadless:
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