Thread:MilkMC/@comment-25330335-20180118235548/@comment-25101690-20180119141646

Unfortunately, IRC isn't as good and compatible as it was intended to be. Every new messanging app has introduced theor own protocols, partially to keep it more proprietary or secure, partially to introduce new features that aren't possible in IRC. There are still a lot of IRC clients, but they are usually far less comfortable to use than other, more modern messengers.

Imo Discord would be perfect for this community. The wiki would get one "guild" with multiple channels for good organisation. The fine grained role/permission management allows us to have channels only for wiki staff, or for specific workgroups. Emoji reactions help with stating your opinion (or vote) on something without spamming the channel. Other features include: @mentions (also for groups), voice chats, chat history search, a good bot API, good clients for all platforms, better acceptance than IRC (especially in this community).

We could have both, and use a bot to sync messages between them, converting incompatible formats appropriately. Since I'm already working on a Discord.js bot, I could do one for this community as well. I also found discord-irc to do the job, but haven't yet investigated it further.