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[–] unhrpetby@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

For instance, Discord shouldn't be a thing since IRC exists, but Discord exists and is very successful.

IRC lacks a massive amount of features that discord users typically want. Screensharing, VCs with group and camera support, built-in history (don't need to use a bouncer like on IRC), built-in online GIF searcher and sender with one click, huge community of bots that use discord's API to do anything from games to moderation.

It isn't even close.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

ICQ and AIM managed to draw a huge crowd in the early (ish) days of home Internet.

It's not about features...it's about ease of use.

Also, IRC wasn't as decentralized as email to begin with, there were several isolated networks that would not communicate with each other (dalnet, EFnet, undernet, etc)

[–] unhrpetby@sh.itjust.works 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's not about features...it's about ease of use.

Its absolutely about both features and ease of use. If your program doesn't do what people want from it, then good luck.

Its also irrelevant to talk about considering I have used IRC and highly doubt that people are going to consider it easier to use than discord.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 20 hours ago

Yeah I'm giving the ease-of-use points to Discord.

I'd agree that both are big, sure...but ICQ and AIM didn't have attachments or GIFs or screensharing, They barely had text formatting. Yet they were still bigger than the semi-decentralized (but at least standards-based) IRC. The features weren't the big lure, it was the ease of use.