Well, it's a good thing if you want a service to be more popular, which is what people here are complaining about: that the centralized services beat the decent

Well, it's a good thing if you want a service to be more popular, which is what people here are complaining about: that the centralized services beat the decentralized ones. It's not like IRC went away, lots of people still use it. It was just massively eclipsed by more accessible alternatives.