> If you go on IRC now every channel is idle, no chat, just joins quits and parts, boring, dead. Not my experience at all. The channels I'm in have had a fairl

> If you go on IRC now every channel is idle, no chat, just joins quits and parts, boring, dead. Not my experience at all. The channels I'm in have had a fairly stable number of users for at least the last decade. These are channels with hundreds or even thousands of users. There is lots of discussion in these channels every day. Sometimes so much I can't keep up with it if I'm there participating. I'm in mostly tech related channels, though.