The Lounge
The Lounge is an open-source, self-hosted app in the IRC & XMPP category, licensed MIT and written mainly in TypeScript. It ships a Docker image. It has 6,359 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 22, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 6,359
- Forks
- 788
- Open issues
- 254
- Commits, last 12 months
- 126
- Last commit
- Oct 22, 2026
- Latest release
- v4.5.2Jul 12, 2026
- Created
- Feb 9, 2016
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 22, 2026, 126 commits in 12 months.
- Welcomes contributors33 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 22, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 126 |
| Latest release | v4.5.2 (Jul 12, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 3 |
| Releases, all time | 127 |
| Open issues | 254 |
| Open pull requests | 64 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Feb 9, 2016 |
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About The Lounge
Self-hosted web IRC client.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/thelounge/thelounge.
Topics
- irc
- javascript
- web
- ircv3
- chat
- thelounge
- nodejs
- vuejs
- irc-client
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Is The Lounge free and open source?
Yes. The Lounge is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run The Lounge with Docker?
Yes. The Lounge provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to The Lounge?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to The Lounge include ejabberd, Weechat and Ergo.
Is The Lounge actively maintained?
The most recent commit to The Lounge was on Oct 22, 2026 with 126 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v4.5.2, published Jul 12, 2026. It had 254 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.