*sadly a bunch of gamer dumbdumbs have decided Discord should also be the replacement for traditional forums for basic shit like support or download links

good luck googling any of that shit matt-joker

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[–] Owl@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

IRC doesn't really work on the modern internet where there are moderation concerns beyond a 14 year old with a spam script.

The XMPP folks are slowly picking away at being able to do grouped chatrooms over that protocol. Hopefully they figure that out before Discord completely implodes.

[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago

IRC v3 protocol was an attempt to modernize, and if the market didn't fragment there surely would have been more changes to become more modern.

XMPP, likewise had similar issues. Google and Facebook embraced then extinguished it.