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Just use irc with a web client like irccloud or mibbit, it's basically discord, unless you want the spyware that tells everyone what game/program you're running.
imo discord is just an online chatbox that segregates people into "servers" based on a subject of interest (a game or whatever). This is much like irc where you have servers dedicated to gaming (quakenet) or software.
What makes discord actually stand out are the tools that allow people to create a server quickly. With irc, your are literally spinning up a server like you are running a webserver. You need to know what you're doing. Discord is allowing game developers to integrate it into their games and it has voice chat built on. You could argue about the possibility of integrating irc in your game, but discord is all about convenience. Api, moderation tools uniform across the entire platform, single point of entry. IRC is none of that, but efforts are made and worth exploring.