Alright... here I am. New nick b/c someone already registered the nick I used on freenode...
Welcome!
I'm glad the band is back together again.
Good to see you all. Even you, [FBI] .
lol
channel poll: what is your choice of IRC client?
For me, weechat on Linux, then weechat-android on my phone
I do that, too: weechat on OpenBSD, weechat-android on Phone.
Same!
We (mike-burns and I) also host weechat (on ARP) for some of our friends.
I'm a co-maintainer of weechat-android. So if it's broken don't blame me it's the other guy.
Also I am working on a React Native client for iOS.
I also recommend wee-slack, I have more Slack buffers in weechat than IRC buffers! 
mhoran is a great iOS developer! He says things like "uh can someone with an actual Apple computer build this for me?"
lol.
(He's actually very good at making Weechat RN work.)
Thankfully GitHub is able to lend me a Mac now so that's working mostly.
But yeah! We maintain a FreeBSD server on ARP with two jails, one for actually running an ircd and a second for a simple shell host with a `irc` shell alias in the default dotfiles that opens weechat and connects to said ircd. It works well!
Also it turns out lots of other people do this (?!) There's someone in the #weechat-android who does the same.
Wow!
Wow
That's all really cool!