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Funny that you specifically asked me to choose between those two. I used hexchat for about three years but switched to irccloud just a couple weeks ago.
I would say go with irccloud as there has been few problems so far and you can use it from multiple devices and such.
Channel is #miraheze-testwiki if you want to visit :)