> You can't count on network effects, because IRC is already such a pain in the butt that half of the people on it are secretly looking for ways to ditch it. H

> You can't count on network effects, because IRC is already such a pain in the butt that half of the people on it are secretly looking for ways to ditch it. How so? I really like IRC for what it is. It's much quicker and higher-density than Matrix. Try opening a hundred channels in Element and see if you can still stay on top of what's going on :)