Its looking like Microsoft is gonna buy Discord. Preferably open source, and has a big userbase, and has Windows and Linux option. (but mainly windows because i only game on windows now.)
Its looking like Microsoft is gonna buy Discord. Preferably open source, and has a big userbase, and has Windows and Linux option. (but mainly windows because i only game on windows now.)
Nearly all of that has 20 year plus “battle proven” solutions in IRC and hosting IRC is much more scalable than Matrix.
Sure it takes effort to set all that up, but you are comparing it to a a multi-million (billion?) dollar VC funded company like Discord. Of course you will not be able to replicate that with IRC on a 5$/month VPS set up from your bed room.
It might be an unfair comparison, but the comparison I have to make because that is where a lot of communities are. If you want to replace Discord with IRC, I don’t think you’ll have much success. And the thread is about alternatives to Discord so the comparison is necessary.
Matrix might be harder to scale but it’s easier to get started in with all the tools just working because they’re integrated into the solution. That is worth the extra price of scalability issues down the line (which if Matrix would get it’s stuff together, would be easier to achieve too).
Replacing a single Discord guild with a few hundred users is easily possible with a self-hosted IRC service. By using Oragono + Convos it is also quick and relatively easy as that is pretty much all you need (plus Mumble for voice chat), at least not any harder than Matrix, while being much lighter on server resources.
We’re talking 5000+ users, not a few hundreds. A community that has to constantly take attacks from 4chan and other vile places of the internet. I do not believe IRC would be the tool for managing this community not only coherently but as a unit.
Mumble solves audio chat, but not screencasting, which we often have in the game related channels. Audio chats routinely hold more than 20 users, with one or two people screencasting at 1080p30. Even if we used mumble, it would split the community from IRC as the people on Mumble can’t coherently interact with IRC in the same client.
There are good bridges between Mumble chat and IRC.
Screencasting… hmm. Would probably be not very hard to implement in a webclient, but yeah that doesn’t exists right now AFAIK. But I think Peertube is working on a chat addition that is based on XMPP/IRC/Matrix (not sure).