IRC is very much alive amongst some tech and tech savy communities including warez. Also, at our company, we run an ircd on the intranet as a last resort instan

IRC is very much alive amongst some tech and tech savy communities including warez. Also, at our company, we run an ircd on the intranet as a last resort instant communications channel for when the likes of Teams & Slack are down and/or the internet is not reachable -- which is not a very rare setup.