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Discord is both powerful and easy to use. A lot of FOSS software is the former but not the latter, and the community often come across as, well, not really giving a shit about that (or sometimes being completely unable to perceive any usability differences).

Yeah there are some downsides compared to IRC, but the average user will likely have a MUCH better nicer experience using Discord...which is a big part of why it's exploded in popularity.

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Being DDoS'd because you joined IRC and didn't read a manual on how to use it so you didn't know all the cool kids have bouncers or that the server may or may not have "cloaks" that you had to opt-in to. Discord is/was definitely a much better nicer experience than this.

To be fair this was always the prevailing attitude on IRC. Try to fix it yourself, RTFM, and ask good questions.

Maybe IRC was a litmus test of sorts.

Right, and that's not wrong. It's fine to have software like that.

But it'll probably never be as popular as software that gives a shit about decent UX design.

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