>That’s exactly how discord servers are made But Discord "servers" are completely different things compared to either IRC servers or IRC channels. "Apples and

>That’s exactly how discord servers are made But Discord "servers" are completely different things compared to either IRC servers or IRC channels. "Apples and oranges have similarities" is a cool story and all, but they're still apples and they're still oranges. >While not official, discord has several third party clients. The discord client is an electron app, so it’s just using discords api. IRC never really had this "official" or "first-party" problem to contend with at all. After it escaped the University of Oulu, people all over were creating their own incarnations of both clients and servers -- and running them independently, without centralized control. (This happened over the span of only a few months.) >Not to say discord is perfect or the be all end all, but it shows a strong trend back towards [...] ...something that is useful and fun, and that is not like IRC.