Color me skeptical that being able to have a video or an image show up in the chat is what makes a community. It can be nice to see videos and images, and it c

Color me skeptical that being able to have a video or an image show up in the chat is what makes a community. It can be nice to see videos and images, and it can be annoying. Quite often videos and images dumb down the conversation as people post memes instead of saying anything meaningful. It can also be handy to see the image right there and not have to click on a link to open it in your web browser to see it, but that just makes the experience a bit more seamless and convenient, and is not something that is going to make or break a community. Plenty of communities have formed on IRC.. big and small, even without inline images and video.