welll...
This whole freakin' place for the last ump-tine years now has hardly been a still pond...
Every day I turn around a half dozen times reading the latest posts here about "the latest device" , "the latest app" , "the latest whatever"
I am royally sick of that shiny-bauble-chasing crow-like behavior that has inundated Talk here.

As far as a debate between IRC , and a better "shell" to utilize the same function, but with more ease of use (ESPECIALLY for new folks), and more interactive functions, doesn't bother me in the slightest.
I RARELY go to IRC for most of the same reasons as has been expressed ..
So something a bit more user friendly ...
Especially when playing catch-up and reading logs...
with a clean interface that is gentler on the eye...
suits me ducky.


As far as it not being FOSS enough...
How many devices does everyone have here that are purely FOSS?
I know mine aren't.
or rather what is on them isn't totally FOSSy...
I limit what I do have that isn't FOSS and use alternatives when I can and when they become available , and
at one point in time I did have hopes it could be done, to not have any unFOSSy crap on my devices,

But
I couldn't go completely FOSS back in the day and I certainly can't now.
Not and do what I need ...and get it done...work wise , personal banking, etc.

FOSS works fine on an "extra" device or laptop or pc...

But realistically the rest of the world expects interaction based on nonFOSSy crap.

So I just have to reject the whole "100% FOSS" belief.

As far as illegalities occurring with Discord and it suffering the same fate as Openfeint ...
Anything is possible.

If there is a more stable and similar alternative to Discord , then lets explore that possibility,
But fearing it will suffer the same fate as something else is premature.