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bathory
X is shutting down... happy face Communities because of low usage and lots of spam not happy face
xnorswap
I read "We are investing heavily in XChat" and was really confused for a second, having used xchat as my main IRC client back in the day.

I hadn't realised that it was now long defunct, with its last release in 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XChat_(IRC_client)

0x10ca1h0st
The nostalgia. I did not much use XChat, but did use custom IRC clients like irssi that were capable of backdooring MSN chat rooms and had the ability to utilize many custom scripts.
stevage
Huh, I'd never heard of them.
phendrenad2
So they're monkey-branching from cloning Reddit to cloning Discord. Wonder if that'll work better for them.
thot_experiment
You know, I don't think the scams and spam are because of the design of the "Communities" tool but because those are the only people left using the website.