I use IRC regularly and will continue to do so, but I’ve changed my opinions in recent years to admit that it is only useful for power users. The spec maintaine

I use IRC regularly and will continue to do so, but I’ve changed my opinions in recent years to admit that it is only useful for power users. The spec maintainers went too long without supporting features of competing systems like authentication, history, Threaded discussion, and a whole bunch of other things. Many of these features have been added to v3 of the specification, but it is too little too late. It is absolutely absurd in 2024 to tell somebody to install a bouncer and host it on digital ocean. They are not going to do that, they are going to use Discord. With that being said, I still love IRC unlimited extensibility and simplicity. But I’m a software engineer.