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IRC is missing two major things.

1. If you are logged out you miss the history of conversations

2. Usability for non tech people. Not everyone in chat has technical prowess, I know IRC seems simple but its too intimidating for some.



> Usability for non tech people. Not everyone in chat has technical prowess, I know IRC seems simple but its too intimidating for some.

I communicated via IRC with a lot of non-technical people in the '90s and 2000s. Most people just used mIRC and connected to the default IRC server and went from there.


> Usability for non tech people

It's not just non-technical people who expect good UX.




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