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I suppose I mean the resemblance to IRC would be mostly in the user experience. However, I personally don't want to add persisted server-side messaging either. The novelty for me is that it's a "here, now" social experience.
The problem with non-persistent messaging is that for most things people use Discord for it is a non-starter. Most people who are doing more than just socializing really don’t want to spend half their time repeating things to people who were at work, asleep, or in a different time zone when the discussion came it. Any serious Discord competitor would need to focus on practically and low barriers to entery, which tend to be directly opposed to novelty.
Or “How Signal is closer in functionality to WhatsApp by the day, because it turns out people like the functionality of WhatsApp.”
I don't think my solution would satisfy users who are completely married to the Discord experience. The persisted social media experience isn't what I'm interested in, personally. I want an old school chat experience, that still works for modern day LAN parties and movie nights.