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Discussion on: Starting a Dev.to IRC?

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Gabe Kangas

Agreed. Why give ownership of your community over to Discord when IRC is an open protocol that gives you the freedom to use any client. I honestly don't understand why people bet their entire community on Slack and/or Discord.

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Hugo Torzuoli

I don't think establish a community on DM software like Discord/Slack/Rocket etc means giving ownership of your comumunity to these softwares.
IMO no need to reinvent the wheel. But I understand the open source wish of Ben for this tool ;)

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Conlin Durbin

I'd say in some ways you are giving them ownership - just look at what happened with Reactiflux: reactjs.org/blog/2015/10/19/reacti...