No in-line images. No animated GIFs. No reactions. No cutesy junk that wiggles and tells me jokes. Lack of those features keeps users who want those things away.
After using Slack, Discord and JS build tools that fill the terminal with emojis (half joking here), joining some IRC channels from a lightweight Linux client (looking at you, Electron) felt amazingly refreshing.
Plus it woke up some nostalgic feelings back from when I was first discovering the internet (circa 2000).
Plus it woke up some nostalgic feelings back from when I was first discovering the internet (circa 2000).