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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a system that facilitates transfer of messages in the form of text. The chat process works on a client/server model of networking.
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Every notable IRC client supports mentions - notifying you when your name is mentioned in the chat. The mentions in IRC are comparably better than Discord. Mentions used in Discord are easily abused; this doesn't happen in IRC. If someone's talking about you, you get a notification in IRC. This doesn't happen in something like Discord.
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Con Assumes some level of prior knowledge
The features are not discoverable the way they are in other apps and services.
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IRC
Recommended 3 years ago
IRC is great if you want a solid and secure protocol. If you have your own IRC server, you can basically do anything you want.
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IRC networks are not centralizedPro
MentionsPro
Open protocolPro
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Assumes some level of prior knowledgePro
Less distractingPro
Hundreds of avaliable clientsPro
No account necessaryPro
User-friendlyPro
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