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Discord is pretty similar to IRC 25 years ago: just a constant stream of conversations and you're SOOL if you miss anything.
IRC... Now that's a protocol I've not thought about in a long time
Discord seems to be sort of adapting to that? In the /r/iosbeta discord, they have topics that sort of act like reddit posts. But yeah, so far, I'm just all over the place. A couple of lemmy instances, Kbin primarily, and a lot of mastodon, with discord filling in when I'm bored. Although discord is very bad as a replacement for reddit/twitter, the nostalgia and it feeling very IRC is kinda nice.
i think discord started as an irc extension, which is why it still has a ton of hooks for it
The one thing Discord has over IRC is logging. If someone could develop an IRCv# with constant channel logging and a history like Discord, I would be there immediately.
Back in the day my mirc client logged as long as I was online. Had logs for certain channels that went back 7 years at one point, but sadly lost those logs in a HDD meltdown.
I think I still have irc logs somewhere. I can probably safely delete them now.
I had 28.8 dialup when people in my neighborhood had DSL, because my folks were cheap and old-fashioned. They were still accustomed to 1200/2400 baud, why should we waste the money on 56K? We finally upgraded when I got a Hayes 56.6K from Dennis Hayes at a show, and I insisted on installing the thing myself. So I wasn't able to stay online and keep logs.
It's in development: https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/chathistory
I have been waiting for IRCv3 with bated breath for years now.