Why we dropped IRC
- 🔒No end-to-end encryption. Messages aren't protected the way modern chat expects; encryption was never part of the protocol.
- 🧵No history or sync. Nothing persists across devices or reconnects — if you weren't online, you missed it.
- 🔔No real push notifications. No clean mobile experience, so people simply didn't stay reachable.
- 🌩️Fragile and fragmented. Netsplits, channel quirks and no discovery made onboarding painful.
- 🧹It was redundant. Running a second chat stack (Ergo + a web client) cost resources and widened our attack surface for effectively no users.
- 🎯One home is better. Consolidating on Matrix and Discord means one identity, better moderation, and less to maintain.