IRC isn't everywhere. Even a large channel like freenode's #node.js has maybe 15 regulars, myself included.
Meanwhile, Elm's Slack channel has more regulars than #node.js.
IRC is kept alive by a small holdout. I'm one of those people, but it's no mystery to me why nobody else uses it when I'm paying irccloud.com or running weechat-ncurses on a VPS just for basic features everyone expects from a communication tool.
Meanwhile, Elm's Slack channel has more regulars than #node.js.
IRC is kept alive by a small holdout. I'm one of those people, but it's no mystery to me why nobody else uses it when I'm paying irccloud.com or running weechat-ncurses on a VPS just for basic features everyone expects from a communication tool.