Comment by faho

>But actually, what is so wrong about IRC?

1. IRC doesn't have any form of persistence or history, requiring the user to run a bouncer 2. IRC doesn't have any formatting - this makes it annoying to talk about code

My experience with IRC is that I joined a channel, asked the question I wanted, waited for a few hours without a response, and turned my computer off. If anyone answered it after that, I have no way of knowing. I don't regularly use IRC and so I don't run a bouncer.

This wasted both my time and the time of people who answered my question after I was gone.

In better chat systems, you can e.g. get an email notification if someone replies to you, allowing you to check back later.