For sure! The fact is that IRC has existed parallel to the development of this entire industry so the desire to hang about in a chat room is real and should be

For sure! The fact is that IRC has existed parallel to the development of this entire industry so the desire to hang about in a chat room is real and should be served, but the modern incarnations of this are causing some people to stop cataloguing the small bits of necessary info about complex systems which i think is bad.