Lurker keeps you present in every IRC channel you care about, holding your connections open around the clock and recording everything said so a retro, searchable web client can hand it all back whenever you return. Invite your friends and each person gets their own set of networks under one roof, while admins decide which networks members may join and which channels newcomers are pointed at. Nothing said while you were away is lost: the full history is searchable by nick, channel or network, and clicking a result jumps straight to that moment, whether it happened an hour or a year ago. The everyday annoyances are handled too, with drafts that follow you between devices, a highlight and ignore system that cuts noise, bookmarks and private notes on users, reactions, replies, and image uploads that are optimized, stripped of metadata and stored on your own disk or S3. If you prefer your old client, the built-in bouncer speaks the soju and ZNC dialects with SASL, network discovery, on-demand scrollback and read markers that stay in sync everywhere, and DCC file transfers with an XDCC queue still work. Optional companion containers generate inline link previews in isolation and keep your IRC connections alive across restarts of the main service. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MPL-2.0 licensed.