Lounge is a spiffy potential replacement for our current webchat. Aside from having a nicer interface and some convenient features like auto-reconnect, it would allow regular IRC users who connect over webchat to remain always connected. Their session would remain open after closing their browser, and next time they log on (possibly from a different device), they would see things said since they left.
The complication is that it doesn't support having both anonymous access and registered users (and thus persistent connections) simultaneously. That can be fixed, since it's open-source, I'm just not sure if it's worth the effort.
What do the IRC users here think? Is this something worth setting up, or is our current webchat good enough?