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I think partly, it's that NNTP is harder to run than IRC. You need to (at minimum) set aside a substantial amount of storage space, how much depending on whethe

I think partly, it's that NNTP is harder to run than IRC. You need to (at minimum) set aside a substantial amount of storage space, how much depending on whether you carry binary groups, and how long you retain articles for. The other thing is that people tended to rely on their ISPs to provide NNTP service, and they started tending to drop it in the late 90s and early 2000s, and there were few/no free alternatives at the time.

Kye 5y ago
Yep. Compare to IRC which has always had an abundance of free servers and free clients that run on anything. You can telnet into an IRC server if you type fast enough. It's still the go-to support channel for major open source projects because of that accessibility.