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haecceity on June 7, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?

Why don't they use discord?

galenguyer on June 7, 2019 | [–]

The reasoning behind that is given on our "I have a great idea" page here: https://confluence.fuelrats.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId... The biggest reason is the IRC server has a higher uptime than discord

haecceity on June 8, 2019 | | [–]

Thank you for answering the question!

lpcvoid on June 7, 2019 | [–]

Because Discord is a bloated abdomination of Javascript, probably.

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