2026-01-19 The Lounge for the elderly
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The Lounge is a web app that acts as an always-on chat client for
IRC. I use it all the time since I don't have to understand how a
"bouncer" like znc works to be always on, nor do I need to have a
WeeChat proxy running somewhere.

I use it for our little network for role-playing game enthusiasts at
Grenzland as well as Libera Chat, Tilde Chat and two other, smaller
IRC servers.

I use it on the phone, too. You can an "add it to the homescreen" and
it works just fine. Until recently, I thought that the font-size was a
problem, though. I'm over fifty and I like my text to be bigger these
days. 😥

In The Lounge, click the cog wheel for Settings → Appearance and paste
the following into the custom CSS at the bottom:

    .header .title,
    .header .topic,
    .messages .msg,
    .userlist,
    input {
      font-size: 16pt;
      line-height: 1.2;
    }
    .channel-list-item {
      font-size: 13pt;
      padding: 4px 7px;
    }
    .channel-list-item[data-type="lobby"] {
      font-size: 14pt;
    }
    /* input box, specially when not expanded */
    #form #input {
      font-size: 13pt;
      padding: 1pt 7px;
      height: 15pt;
    }
    /* unread message count */
    .channel-list-item .badge {
      font-size: 12pt;
    }
    #settings .error, .window label, .window li, .window p {
        font-size: 14pt;
    }
    /* phones and the like */
    @media (max-width: 768px) {
        #context-menu, #form #input, #help .help-item, #loading, #settings .error, #sidebar .empty, .channel-list-item, .header .topic, .messages .msg, .textcomplete-menu, .window label {
            font-size: 15pt;
        }
    }
    /* long usernames */
    #chat .from {
      width: 15ch;
    }

It probably still needs some tweaking but it's already much better.

Here is also where you can change the theme. The screenshot below uses
the "Morning" theme, plus an earlier version of the font-size changes
given above.

A chat channel, with larger font-size and "Morning" theme, showing me,
talking to lkh and norn, our bot.

#IRC