Is there a Steem IRC channel?

You may know that I hang out a lot at steem.chat. I seem to be one of the only ones left. I was practically the only one left like a year ago, and there are probably less people there now. I dunno if I'm waiting for someone to come back...or I just got used to going there. Perhaps I'm a creature of habit.

A lot of my old Steem friends were there. Many of them left...both Steem and Steem.chat...

I know I need a community...but they all use Discord for some reason. Discord sucks. Discord massively sucks. I don't know who designed that horrible place...but they have no sense of proper design. Even when discord is bustling it feels like you're alone. That place is horrible.

But, I actually like old style chats, including IRC. They're simple. Just a name and a box full of text from different names and different avatars. There's none of those spacing problems that discord has that make it look so weird.

There has to be a Steem IRC run by someone, right? IRC has everyone. Every project has an IRC. So where's Steem's?

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