@miah I've been using IRC since the 90ies, and still do. The problem nowadays imo is that it's pretty much only populated by niche communities. Gone are the days of using it as a communication infrastructure among friends and family, largely because it doesn't support features that a modern user has come to expect, such as editing sent messages, file transfer, stickers, smileys, quotes, image sharing, code, offline chat history (especially important for mobile use), and encryption.