https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/7407ebc2-0c23-4619-8c2b-52cdcdbb6035 The Lounge is an always-on web IRC client that stays connected while you come and go. Hosted on ElfHosted, with nothing to run at home. With hosted The Lounge on ElfHosted, your web IRC client stays connected on our servers, so there's no laptop left open and nothing to run at home. It has its own secure address you reach from anywhere, installs to your phone's home screen for push notifications, and the channels see our server, not your home connection. We keep it running and updated. It's backed up daily, and you can restore it yourself whenever you need to. If something goes wrong, Sam, ElfHosted's AI helper, checks your actual apps, tells you what's wrong, and asks before fixing it. Unlike a generic chatbot, which guesses and overcomplicates, Sam is tuned on these apps and the way we run them: he safely reads your actual logs and proposes a fix, and nothing changes until you approve it. What is The Lounge? An open-source IRC client from The Lounge project that lives in your browser and stays connected to your chat networks, so messages wait for you. It's an IRC client and a bouncer in one, with channel history, link previews and file uploads: pick up the same chat and history on the laptop, the phone or the tablet. You sign in with your ElfHosted username and change the starting password in the docs on first login. The Lounge is part of the ElfHosted Flex collection: a Flex plan runs several apps from the collection at once, and you swap which ones whenever you like. Every Flex plan starts with a 7-day trial. The Lounge is open source; ElfHosted is not affiliated with the project. And when Sam can't sort it, real people from our team are on Discord around the clock, in a family-friendly, carefully moderated server. It's one place for support for every app you run with us, handled by professionals, instead of a GitHub issue, docs that may be out of date, or yet another Discord per project. Try it with ElfHosted Flex: https://store.elfhosted.com/product/flex/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=thelounge The Lounge docs: https://docs.elfhosted.com/app/thelounge/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=thelounge ElfHosted: https://elfhosted.com/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=thelounge The Flex collection: https://store.elfhosted.com/product-category/flex-collection/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=thelounge Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:14 What is The Lounge 0:25 Running The Lounge yourself 0:52 Hosted The Lounge, kept running for you 1:05 Chat from anywhere About ElfHosted: we run open-source apps for you, kept updated and looked after by elves, so you get the apps without the upkeep. [s]elf-hosting without [s]uffering. https://elfhosted.com?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video #TheLounge #IRC #ElfHosted Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:54:07 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.elfhosted.com https://video.elfhosted.com/lazy-static/avatars/0ad9ef41-d7cc-447f-b89c-24dcddbb6422.png https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/7407ebc2-0c23-4619-8c2b-52cdcdbb6035 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.elfhosted.com/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.