@dansup the thought is so damn tempting, esp. considering how hard Discord is pushing to upgrade people to a paid tier.

But losing custom emojis, the gif picker, voice channels and all the other things that actually makes Discord great - urgh..

@dansup

https://cabal.chat/

Cabal is the spiritual successor to irc , it is rock solid on the cmd line and ready to go, come say hi on default 🙂

@dansup I keep wondering if it has a chance of returning to some extent..
A lot of us older hats seem to be getting pretty nostalgic for it.

MIRC and ICQ and morning coffee. Good times…