One reason for the move not mentioned in OP, https://reactjs.org/blog/2015/10/19/reactiflux-is-moving-to-discord.html https://reactjs.org/blog/2015/10/19/react

One reason for the move not mentioned in OP, https://reactjs.org/blog/2015/10/19/reactiflux-is-moving-to-discord.html https://reactjs.org/blog/2015/10/19/reactiflux-is-moving-to-... "Discord is the easiest platform to join. New users can immediately join our conversations without having to create an account." That is, frankly, the killer feature. Notwithstanding, I find it odd that developers here don't use E2E chats. It's always something clear text with permanent history, and in the case of Slack, key logging too! There's a JS based xmpp framework out there. https://www.jsxc.org/ https://www.jsxc.org/ It puzzles me why no one uses such things.