Yep, I use IRC all day, every day. I keep in touch with many of my friends on IRC, hang out in social and technical channels, organize developers on my projects

Yep, I use IRC all day, every day. I keep in touch with many of my friends on IRC, hang out in social and technical channels, organize developers on my projects, provide support channels on IRC, ask questions and reach out to projects I'm collaborating with... I'm in hundreds of channels on a dozen networks. I run a dozen IRC bots. IRC is still king. Nothing beats plaintext communication on a well-established protocol with hundreds of implementations. Least of all a proprietary walled garden like Slack, Discord, etc