User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The future of Chat/@comment-24258073-20200805214649

Oh no. I was at least hoping that Chat would be reinvented. But it sucks to hear that reinventing the wheel is out of the question. R.I.P. Chat. It was an awesome feature, despite its many issues, and didn't deserve the backlash it got. It is definitely superior to IRC in my book (yes to all you IRC lovers, your eyes are not deceiving you)

And though neither Chat nor Discord can fully replace the other, Chat has certain nostalgia that could never be achieved on Discord because Chat is a Fandom built feature whereas Discord isn't. Therefore Discord can never feel like an ordinary room inside your house. It feels more like a wardrobe into Narnia if anything.

I know a lot of users aren't affected by this decision, as many have already jumped on the Discord bandwagon and some of the users - namely veterans - always preferred IRC. While I am technically a veteran Fandom user now, I was still introduced to IRC quite late compared to certain other veterans. Despite some users not being affected by this decision, as I predicted there are some that are really ticked off.