[BMSR]

What I like about irc is that the x-topic "communities" are one big channel, centralized. Compare that with Discord where you join a server/guild and you are presented with 10 or more channels and you have to take a guess into what the normal/off-topic/on-topic/general channel is. But irc is also very strange, I wouldn't be surprised if I had been chatting with a swarm of bots all these years.

[sph]

Discord servers are run by those people that really like putting every thing into neat, well-defined little boxes. Their solution to too many channels is to add even more channels, and maybe some inane automation and bot system so the complexity of the real world is contained and perfectly categorised in their kingdom.

Utter lunatics.