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I prefer IRC over Discord any day but it's very hard to convince other people not familiar with it to make a move away from Discord to it.

When people get used to certain features they generally don't want to give them up.



> When people get used to certain features they generally don't want to give them up.

Yeah, I would find it hard going back to not having a offline history and drag 'n drop file upload.

Having to host your own bot for pagetitle preview and user management was also not fun.

You can selfhost your IRC client, which eliminates som of the drawbacks but that also only works for a small portion of people.


> Yeah, I would find it hard going back to not having a offline history

It's funny but I personally prefer that the IRC server isn't required to store every chat log indefinitely. You're right though, these are solvable problems, BNC for example but we're getting a little off topic.




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