Comment by doublerabbit

> Discord has much better user experience for new users.

Until you join a server that gives you a whole essay of what you can and cannot do with extra verification. This then requiring you to post in some random channel waiting for the moderator to see your message.

You're then forced to assign roles to yourself to please a bot that will continue to spam you with notifications announcing to the community you've leveled up for every second sentence. Finally, everyone glaring at you in channel or leaving you on read because you're a newbie with a leaf above your username. Each to their own, I guess.

/server irc.someserver.net

/join #hello

/me says Hello

I think I'll stick with that.

At least Discord and IRC are interchangeable in the sake of idling.