I have used IRC in some open source projects for a good number of years. Before that I hadn't heard anyone (within the set of developers I worked with) even tal

I have used IRC in some open source projects for a good number of years. Before that I hadn't heard anyone (within the set of developers I worked with) even talk about it. To me, it seems like it's one of those things which is too nerdy that most developers haven't even tried it in their day to day communication. Till date, I haven't seen any of the companies I have worked or known about, use IRC as their internal or support communication tool. Just to be clear, I don't hate IRC - to me it's just another "chat" tool and it serves its purpose most of the times. One of the things that I would have liked in it, is in-built support for some kind of formatting for lengthy texts like logs etc... We used to use (and still do), external text hosting sites like pastebin, gist etc to share such logs/code snippets, which I never liked.