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Where did this sudden interest in reinventing IRC come from? It seems we get one of these every day now.

It seems like this is, in fact, just a skinned IRC and not a reimplementation.

What makes you think it's skinned IRC?

- you can't change nick

- you can go full anonymous

- Hashtags (or channels if you like) are automatically ranked)

- you can post media

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