> One finds IRC clients everywhere. Yet I find myself using the web interface of Freenode when I need it, instead of installing a client in my Linux machine wi

> One finds IRC clients everywhere. Yet I find myself using the web interface of Freenode when I need it, instead of installing a client in my Linux machine with a single command, any of the ones I used for a long time. > Is the value of a program measured by the number of features it has? I'd say by the number of features reliably shared by everyone else. This is why XMPP never took off and basically Google killed it. > Apples and oranges. Discord specifically targeted communities that used IRC, at least initially. The main difference with the other chat services is that you can enter a room from a browser, so it's almost friction-less to bring someone. IRC natively doesn't support that but many servers could and did (and I think it's the reason IRC remained somewhat popular). For the record, I don't like Discord for its proprietary and centralized nature (despite calling the communities "servers"). Instead I'll be supporting Matrix and Riot as soon as Riot issue #4488 is fixed.