I've been using IRC for 25 years and Matrix is close to unusable for me. There is something to be said about the combination of text-only, barrier to entry perf

I've been using IRC for 25 years and Matrix is close to unusable for me. There is something to be said about the combination of text-only, barrier to entry perfectly calibrated, hostile to mobile devices protocol features that make IRC such a resilient/long-standing solution. No matter what happens with freenode, the same people that have been using IRC for decades will keep on using IRC.