Based on what evidence are you drawing this conclusion from, because I've used discord for years and literally never once video chatted (I didn't even know it h

Based on what evidence are you drawing this conclusion from, because I've used discord for years and literally never once video chatted (I didn't even know it had video chat until now) I have never once been sent a Discord conference call link. Video chat is not a huge selling point of Discord, or any chat platform. That's why it's almost always offered as a separate service. One of Discords biggest competitors is Slack. Slack didn't have video chat for about a decade. And to that point, there is literally nothing stopping an IRC suite from supporting video chat. KiwiIRC has a conferencing plugin. Nothing's stopping someone from commercializing that and wrapping it up in a one click deploy package. And what community building elements does Discord have that IRC lacks..? I have never discovered a Discord channel in any other way than directly through a link. You can also send links to WebIRC chatrooms.