@dysfun @amolith With IRC, ZNC filling a client with message backlog makes message synchronization across devices a solved problem. The only issue is with hosting media, but this is up to client developers to implement detecting media links and displaying them inline if they want. As for uploading/hosting media, there is a million services which do that and if you wanted to, you could integrate one of the simple file hosts with ZNC server, which runs a HTTP server for serving configuration anyway, and just add a "curl -Ffile@.." functonality to the IRC client.

I was considering setting up matrix but this list of issues convinced me to stick to IRC

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