I use a chatroom which is bridged between IRC/Slack/Discord. I stuck with IRC for a while out of hate for Slack and then I moved to Discord out of hate for Slac

I use a chatroom which is bridged between IRC/Slack/Discord. I stuck with IRC for a while out of hate for Slack and then I moved to Discord out of hate for Slack. General experience is, the worst inputs come from the IRC interface. Occasionally that is a regular with a long running connection, or a genuine interaction with a normal person, but handwavingly-mostly the IRC side is someone who has clicked on a web IRC gateway, doesn't know what they're looking at, wants a "give me the codes" style answer or just wants to rant, doesn't respond to people when they offer help, and doesn't stick around. Most people who join IRC and stick around, join and ask "oh there's a Discord, how can I get an invite?". The only genuine spam I've seen came from the IRC side, things like religious spam/flood messages. The biggest restrictions on things like inline-code are that the IRC interface can't deal, because it risks getting rate-limited for "flooding" the IRC servers because one bot user is echoing all the chat from every other user. Markdown which works well enough in Slack and Discord is left as Markdown markup and makes examples look broken in most (all?) IRC clients. The slack and Discord can usefully impersonate each other's users with a hint that you're looking at text from a relay, IRC can't so all the text actually comes from a relay bot user which breaks nick highlighting, nake autocomplete, channel connected user lists. The Slack experience is still user-hostile and indefensibly poor, I yearn for the days when typing some plain text didn't have 5-10 seconds of lag all over the place, but the Discord user experience side is tolerably fine in almost every way, and better in many ways, except the ideology of it being proprietary and closed source and slurping data into the cloud forever. I leave my IRC bouncer running, and for a while I used it to join other IRC channels. But IRC increasingly felt like that's all anyone does - typical experience of finding a random channel - dozens of users and nothing but join/parts for the past couple of days. [just wants to rant / hate for Slack - this also includes me, btw]