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I honestly don't know what you are trying to say?

I didn't mean using IRC (although you might of course).

He's trying to say that your "groundbreaking" hashtag idea is so similar to IRC that some people will be thinking you're being ironic.

That makes sense I guess. IRC channels are spread over thousands of servers though and not really discoverable or, in general, mainstream user friendly

And obviously it doesn't have to be a # character.

Thousands of servers that are federated together into a few networks. I shouldn't have to explain the benefits of a federated chat service vs a corporate monolith like you're describing. Is "/list" and sorting by members or searching for keywords really not discoverable?

All that aside, parent is right, you're basically re-inventing IRC. A more user-friendly client may be a good idea, but it's something that's really hard to make money on, so it's unlikely anyone would bother working on it.

It's discoverable by me and you, not by the average joe. When I was in school I created an IRC channel for us, I had to make a youtube video explaining how to install a client, connect to the server, reserve a username. I still got questions how to connect.

Anyway, as someone else let me now, kik intruduced exactly this feature with the exact same limit on users in one chat already.

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