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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 ver

by 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.