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Discord uses IRC for it's chat

• echelon 6y ago
  Can you connect to Discord using a standard IRC client?
• codetrotter 6y ago
  Is that true?
  • anticensor 6y ago
    It was, for very early revisions of Discord.
• Macha 6y ago
  It has some IRC stylings in the UI with the #channels etc. but it's not IRC. Are you sure you're not thinking of Twitch?
• stryan 6y ago
  I think Discord has always used it's own thing (or at least I've never heard of this). Twitch, on the other hand, did used to use a very heavily customized version of IRC for it's chat. Not sure if it still does.
  • erinnh 6y ago
    It did as of last year. I used to use custom desktop clients where the chat was basically just an irc client that automatically joined whichever Twitch Stream I was watching.
• gsich 6y ago
  Maybe on the backend. But maybe you mistake it for Twitch? They use IRC and you can use normal IRC clients to connect.