@CobaltVelvet I'll note that XMPP Multi User Chat provides most of the things people claim that IRC is missing, but it never became as popular; I'd argue that's primary for interface reasons, since back in the day IM applications kind of shoehorned in chatroom type interfaces into their one-on-one chat interfaces and it didn't feel right
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