[emteycz]

I used to chat on IRC between 2005 to 2014. We tried to switch to Jabber several times but it was simply too much work (we had elaborate mIRC bots, for example) and it simply wasn't as good - bloaty clients (this was in times when we had 512 MB RAM and single or dual core), chat servers were frequently down while IRC always worked (with the occasional netsplit, but oh well)...

Then we tried Slack but most people didn't come there too much. Today we have a Telegram group and it's so much better UX/UI wise...

[nitia]

Telegram is backed by xmpp ;)

[emteycz]

Cool, but the coolest thing about Telegram is that IDGAF, it just works