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It's a very interesting topic. Feature will alter the sociological / human aspect of the tool. I could feel it on discord, you join a room like on IRC, you join a realm, a group with lots of idiosyncrasies.

When I join an IRC chat there's a lot less baggage.. it's just a label / topic, it's very freeing.

logging, message fixing, embedded replies .. all great but not important in the end. These things are blending professional complexity with normal human moments. Not the right optimization (if optimizations are required at all)



Having the ability to reply to a message would be incredibly useful in irc, which is being worked on: https://ircv3.net/specs/client-tags/reply.html


Everyone of these feature is entirely awesome, but when talking i actually find that it changes the nature of the convos.


Threading is handy though. Although keeping track of so many convos was half the fun of irc.




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