Comment by textfiles

My experience, down to the moment, is that IRC may be "superior" to other services because it never tries to extend past its small set of core competencies. Which means it appeals exclusively to people who are fine with that small set, and every extension past that is lambasted and doomed to obscurity because there's no interest on the whole to push the entire realm as a whole into the late 20th century, much less the 21st.

My response was tepid because I don't like telling someone stuck in a little tiny fishbowl going "the fishbowl is perfectly adequate" and dissuading them that the fishbowl is not adequate. Not that Discord is "the ocean" but it's a cruise ship and it's expensive, and a very nice ride comparatively.

My weblog entry describes a situation beyond Discord, and that of knowledge, and is at best a framing of the problem in a static area, because I believe this is the year Twitter closes down, closes up, or dies.