nowadays people use shout or znc (closer to psybnc, and its still updated and patched)
http://shout-irc.com/
http://wiki.znc.in/ZNC

Thanks Wiak.

Does Shout have multi-network support?

@elre

You can find a demo of Shout at the URI below:

http://demo.shout-irc.com/

It does allow users to connect to the network of their choosing and it's actually really nice as well as very clean.

@jtittle Sadly shout isn't a BNC as for what @elre is looking for. Shout will disconnect you when you close the tab (I want to use it to connect to my ZNC when I am not on one of my computers but sadly you can't restrict networks).

@Zachary_DuBois

It provides one of the nicest GUI's I've seen (I'm a sucker for aesthetics :-)). IIRC, there are NodeJS packages that can be installed via npm to background the process / server, thus allowing it to remain active indefinitely. With a little NodeJS magic, I'm sure something could be configured to allow the process / server to run + allow an incoming connection.

The pm2 (link) package would be able to handle all things persistent while allowing plenty of configuration options. Beyond that, a bit of custom code would be needed to handle the rest, though it should be doable.

That said, how to do it is something I'd have to research further as I only work with NodeJS / Javascript here and there.

@jtittle Well, Shout out of the box doesn't work like that :( I am a sucker for UI/UX too. But if it doesn't accomplish what I need, I use something else.
I know about pm2 :) I use is for several Node.js things I have. It is very nice especially with memory management.
My current IRC bouncer setup is ZNC + KiwiIRC (Self-hosted w/ network restriction). I only use KiwiIRC when I am not on a computer I own so I don't deal with the UI often.