I’m personally crossing my fingers for Discord.

  • luna@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    As OneRedFox says, it’s all about the UX. From the perspective of your average gamer, IRC has awful UX. I know that speedrunning, romhacking, and other gaming subcommunities have used / still use IRC, but they’re very much on the technical side of gamers. Discord is a lot friendlier to the average gamer (I know, I know, it’s Electron and proprietary and shit for reasons besides those two, but consider your average console CoD player here). I still like IRC, too, though I’d love to see it evolve a little more quickly. IRCv3 is nice but my goodness, how long have they been working on it?

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      1 year ago

      I don’t feel like IRCv3 is a big enough jump ahead either. Kind of like MIDI v2, 10+ years too late