There are plenty of commercial chat apps (particularly ones embedded in other applications) that use IRC under the hood. You don't always know that this has hap

There are plenty of commercial chat apps (particularly ones embedded in other applications) that use IRC under the hood. You don't always know that this has happened, though. In fact, almost every non-IRC chat app around starts out as some variant of "trying to improve on drawback X of IRC." For a long time, IRC was the default choice and you only did something different if you wanted to fix one of the problems with IRC. I hope matrix can become this new default.