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Originally Posted by Annie
I think getting rid of IRC would cause the death quicker then keeping IRC. You have a choice, IRC brings the community together and is easy to use, what I do see with WA, Telegram and so on is people no longer talk to others not in there ally.
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(This is not a rebuttal of, but a supplement to your post.)
And this is not the first time it's happened. Back in the dark ages, alliances routinely felt the need to maintain their own IRC networks, isolating their communities from the shared space of NetGamers, but eventually alliances recognized the ease of just using a network that was just... there*. Until Slack/WhatsApp/Telegram/pigeons came around, anyway.
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* That ended a bit before my time here, My impression is that 1up's use of #public and #private (awesome in both its arrogance and its simplicity) was the turning point. Fully expecting multi-paragraph posts about how I'm wrong and therefore a terrible person.