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[–] chasteinsect@programming.dev 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

What was the main problem that eventually made everyone move from it ? I remember back in my teen days it was Teamspeak, Skype and IRC. Somehow I got by with mostly Skype so don't have much experience with it.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 5 points 18 hours ago

IRC has no support for rich media, voice or video calls, and if you want offline message receipt you need to roll your own solution, of which there are billions.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

There wasn't one. They're still around and people still idle.

Discord is the same thing but with added features like voice, photos, gifs, and other services.

Under the hood, it's just updated IRC with analytics