> Requires a phone number to even sign up. How is that more usable than say opening up https://web.libera.chat https://web.libera.chat and typing `/join #channe

> Requires a phone number to even sign up. How is that more usable than say opening up https://web.libera.chat https://web.libera.chat and typing `/join #channel` As much as I love the chaos of the old Internet where you could kick someone and they could immediately rejoin the channel, that's simply not practical on the modern Internet. If web.libera.chat were as popular as Discord they would probably end up requiring phone numbers too. (This wasn't always a requirement.) > Actually awful search ergonomics alone, makes Discord more of a "blackhole" than IRC. I don't really use Discord for technical stuff, but whenever I have tried to search for something in my social channels I have been able to find it easily. It's not for searching the world like Google is - it's for searching personal history and it does that really well.