The mismatch between Discord's targeted audience of gamers can get funny at times. One rust dev has had their status we to "playing systemd" for days.
Edit: How did I miss that Zulip is open source??? Thank you to the commentators who pointed this out, you made my day :)
Edit2: Just learned what I said about rust decision-making was totally wrong. Thanks to Rob Pike in the other thread for his detailed comments.
I really miss the paragraphs style.
But even then, paragraph-at-a-time is hard on IRC because there's a max line length that's surprisingly short (and usually just truncates the rest of your message once you exceed it!), and just because you'd stand out as being the person writing much more than everyone else and being slow to reply. IRC simply isn't a medium designed for carefully considered thought like that.
"Sorry this is so long. I didn't have time to make it shorter."
Maybe I was thinking about this comment by someone else when I wrote that???: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kibwen
Just so you know, the Rust Embedded guys went with Matrix back in June and several people do use the IRC bridge.