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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by detuur on Sunday June 24, 2018 @08:08PM (#17389045)
Actually, Discord does this pretty well. I honestly consider it a 21st century successor to IRC. The unfortunate fact is that Discord is still a closed system, with not even the ability to run your own instance, instead with the owners insisting on a cloud-run infrastructure.

Just imagine how much better Discord, Slack, et al. could be if you could host your own instances with your own rules and with your own extensions.

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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by krageon on Monday June 25, 2018 @07:47AM (#17391548)
If it is closed (and nominally 'free' for the average user), you have to assume everything you say and do is being mined and sold to the highest bidder. How can something like that be the successor to anything?
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