IMO IRC is fixable, cf. IRCCloud's integration with Slack, where the client you use is just connected to a fancy IRCv3 server managed by IRCCloud. I'm sad we are not investing in IRCv3 instead of just switching off IRC.
I'm not tied to IRC. It just seems to me like the easiest to fix, as opposed to getting clients to support a whole different protocol. I just want an excellent open protocol, with user choice of clients.
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Matrix has a bunch of clients already. IRC has design decisions baked in that are hard to change. Message persistence is an example of that
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Putting a team behind Matrix dev may be fine too. I haven't explored it. The name of protocol isn't important to me. Announcing the closure of a platform using open standards without declaring that some other open platform was the goal is the concern.
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