Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by RadiozRadioz 633 days ago
There are loads of comments exactly like OP's, and they always make the mistake of mentioning IRC alongside XMPP and Matrix. Inevitably repliers can't help themselves and spend their replies discussing IRC's unsuitability for modern IM and how it's not federated. When IRC is mentioned, commenters ignore XMPP and Matrix and attack the point in terms of IRC. (Though this thread in particular is better than average).

Matrix and XMPP are the far more appropriate competitors for Discord, we need to steer the conversation toward them. I deliberately never mention IRC when I make these types of comments so people don't latch onto it and ignore everything else I said.