> If Discord were to disappear tomorrow, you'd would be well served to have a backup of some sort to avoid losing contact with everyone, IRC has the advantage o

> If Discord were to disappear tomorrow, you'd would be well served to have a backup of some sort to avoid losing contact with everyone, IRC has the advantage of being relatively easy to setup independently with extremely low hardware requirements. I don't see why you wouldn't need some sort of alternate contact info on IRC. There's no real identity system with IRC, so you'd need to validate people are who they say they are when they register their names with your new NickServ.