Personally, I have found Matrix to be extremely buggy, and much less usable than Discord. And, I now have an IRC setup that works for me using IRCCloud, but that took a while and I pay $5 per month for it.
Also, although Discord somewhat isolates one from older generations, IRC or Matrix somewhat isolates one from a different group, and I think it would be hard to argue that one was more important than the other. I've already gotten a bunch of early use, along with a lot of feedback, from users on Discord.
But, I do use IRC, so I should definitely consider having a link to #intermodal on Freenode in the readme. I sort of worry about fragmenting the chat, and having to check a lot of chat clients tho :/
Personally, I have found Matrix to be extremely buggy, and much less usable than Discord. And, I now have an IRC setup that works for me using IRCCloud, but that took a while and I pay $5 per month for it.
Also, although Discord somewhat isolates one from older generations, IRC or Matrix somewhat isolates one from a different group, and I think it would be hard to argue that one was more important than the other. I've already gotten a bunch of early use, along with a lot of feedback, from users on Discord.
But, I do use IRC, so I should definitely consider having a link to #intermodal on Freenode in the readme. I sort of worry about fragmenting the chat, and having to check a lot of chat clients tho :/