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LVChat Brings IRC-Style Chat Back to Your Own Server

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An open-source, self-hosted web chat system built with PHP and SQLite, with channels, direct messages, voice and video, moderation, themes, webhooks, and desktop clients.

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LVChat treats IRC as a design language rather than a protocol dependency: its site promises slash commands, channel modes, access levels, and services without requiring an IRC daemon. The homepage also provides a concrete PHP-and-SQLite quick start and lays out browser, Messenger-style, and Electron clients for people who want to run the chat infrastructure themselves.

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