Slack and Discord (which seem to be the "hype" chats these days) are pigs both in terms of real estate and resource usage. I can easily see a backlog of nearly

Slack and Discord (which seem to be the "hype" chats these days) are pigs both in terms of real estate and resource usage. I can easily see a backlog of nearly a hundred messages in a single terminal IRC frame but I'm lucky if I can see 10 messages in Slack or Discord. So much scrolling to catch up with chat history, not to mention how laggy it feels if you don't have a high end PC. I can't easily script the client, I can't easily self-host and script the server and I'm stuck with a proprietary architecture at the whims of the devs. Amazing. You'll have to pry irssi out of my cold dead hands.