[verylittlemeat]

In my experience offline twitch chats are the new irc. It's pretty much as close as you can get to an irc experience like gamesnet or quakenet in the early 00s.

Discords are mostly a waste of time. Barrier to entry is too low/easy/obvious. You just get tons of low quality content and people just speaking in memes with immature high school environment.

[Merem]

Twitch chat is IRC, so you can just join with a dedicated or web client irc.twitch.tv and chat away (OAuth token is required). Most of the offline chatters that I know use a client.

Apart from that I'm on several channels on Rizon and synIRC.

[Crosseye_Jack]

if you want read only access you can use the nick justinfan{randomnumber} and then join what ever channels you like. But its read only so you can't on even pull a list of a channels moderators without signing in with an auth. (The user list only shows active mods in smaller channels, but you can ask the server for a list of the mods in the channel if you have logged in with a valid oauth)

> $ ncat -C irc.chat.twitch.tv 6667

> NICK justinfan123

> :tmi.twitch.tv 001 justinfan123 :Welcome, GLHF!

> :tmi.twitch.tv 002 justinfan123 :Your host is tmi.twitch.tv

> :tmi.twitch.tv 003 justinfan123 :This server is rather new

> :tmi.twitch.tv 004 justinfan123 :-

> :tmi.twitch.tv 375 justinfan123 :-

> :tmi.twitch.tv 372 justinfan123 :You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.

> :tmi.twitch.tv 376 justinfan123 :>

[NickBusey]

What Twitch chat rooms are you in?