It took using discord to make me realise there was never anything wrong with IRC
@cda i stil use irc
@cda for me, the same with Slack. Can't figure out how it is better than the BB forums.
@cda same for me but Matrix instead of Discord
@me Simplicity really is key.
@cda I'm sure I could find an XMPP E2E plugin that'd do encryption way more reliably than Matrix