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It will be around, but it will be used by about same number of people... It won't grow from where it is now. Unless it fundamentally changes.


> The reality is, IRC will probably be still around after Discord and its successor have bitten the dust. The Lindy effect has been trustworthy so far.

You do realize that even if Discord dies, its users on there won't be going back to IRC? That is the point.

We have already seen the Matrix protocol being used in the tens of millions whilst IRC is in decline.




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