I want that to exist, too. Skype gets crappier with every release, and there's nothing out there like a modern-day ICQ/AIM. I worry about how hard it would be

I want that to exist, too. Skype gets crappier with every release, and there's nothing out there like a modern-day ICQ/AIM. I worry about how hard it would be to do these days, though-- in addition to the Windows/Mac/Linux clients that you've always needed, your app has to work on iPhone and Android (including their many variations), and don't forget the web app! Plus audio/video chat. Image/file uploading is pretty tricky, too. If you dragged an image into an IRC channel, nothing would happen and that was normal. But now people except it to be automatically uploaded to cloud storage, resized, stripped of metadata, and shown in the chat view for all to see. Features like this are deceptively hard, and there are many of them. All of that is just to be feature-competitive with the stuff people are already using, before you get to the absurd difficulty of getting people to switch away from Discord.