> What is wrong with IRC The UX sucks (even if there are a thousand UX's and some of them don't suck, they get drowned out by the sucky ones) and the friction

> What is wrong with IRC The UX sucks (even if there are a thousand UX's and some of them don't suck, they get drowned out by the sucky ones) and the friction is too high to get started. > and mailing lists that everyone jumped to Discord? They did UX right and lowered the friction. I doubt Discord actually poached users from IRC, they just made chatting great again.