It really looks like you’re being intentionally obtuse here.
I’m in hundreds of discord servers, most of which have 10,000 to 300,000 thousand users each.
I do still use IRC, and I rarely find a server with more than 1000 users, most of which are bots, or users who only send bot commands. A typical ‘active’ channel has less than 10 active chatters over a week. IRC is dead.
I’m happy you are able to find niche use cases for it, but that’s obviously not what I’m talking about.
The fact of the matter is this: if I want to engage with any of the hundreds of broad communities I frequent, I am not able to do that on IRC anymore. They are just not there.
And it looks like a better game than monster hunter now
That’s the point, discord isn’t just a VoIP app. It has all that other stuff too. 90% of my discord usage is text based. But IRC is dead now, so it is what it is. I was just as pissed about it when discord initially came around as I am now, but this is what we’re stuck with until something new takes over
Yes, you’re a pedant intentionally missing the point to argue a different definition than the one I’m using