IRC never had any channel discovery, so how does modern breed of group chats make channel discovery harder?
IRC does make a lot of things we now take for granted harder (file/image/video sharing, search, persistent history, mobile support...)
wot? It didn't have server discovery, but once you connected to a server, you could definitely discover channels.
Same thing: find a server, connect to it. Boom, you have access to all channels (unless they are private).
2. There are many more “group chats” for the midern era. Ignoring them isn’t wise.
3. Even among those listed you have channel discovery, for example, in Facebook Messenger.
And no, a discussion on modern chats does not end with “IRC was better end of story”. It wasn’t.
Same thing: find a server, connect to it. Boom, you have access to all channels (unless they are private).