We need an improved IRC protocol and modern open-source clients, now more than ever. Just make a cute, free client and people won't care about the underlying t

We need an improved IRC protocol and modern open-source clients, now more than ever. Just make a cute, free client and people won't care about the underlying tech. Most of the better IRC clients throughout history have been paid, but when Microsoft Comic Chat was bundled with Windows, IRC got an influx of tons of new users, in an era with generally fewer computer-literate people than today. That kind of resurgence can be repeated today if somebody can make a free IRC client on par with Discord's functionality. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat