@miah Also, remember to run your computer 24/7 to be able to read chat history.

In seriousness, though, I support the sentiment, but can't shed the intense feeling that IRC's focus has always been on serving the people that can operate it rather than being an universal protocol for everyone. Therefore, I think that replacing IRC with e.g. matrix and 486 with Raspberry Pi is more useful for 99% of people here.

(Disclaimer: I have used IRC as my primary chat for 6 years and matrix too.)