One more "yes, daily" here. I'm on Freenode for tech topics: #octave, ##matlab, #zsh, #bash, #machomebrew, and #macports are active and useful.
And I have a group of friends who are on a private IRC server and have been for years. We recently considered switching to a "modern" chat platform. Tried Slack, Matrix, Mattermost, Zulip, and a couple others. Decided we still liked the "feel" of IRC best. (I hate all the whitespace and decoration that modern PWAs use.)
Bouncers or IRCCloud solve the offline-delivery problem, and I can live without the other features that newer chat systems provide.
And I have a group of friends who are on a private IRC server and have been for years. We recently considered switching to a "modern" chat platform. Tried Slack, Matrix, Mattermost, Zulip, and a couple others. Decided we still liked the "feel" of IRC best. (I hate all the whitespace and decoration that modern PWAs use.)
Bouncers or IRCCloud solve the offline-delivery problem, and I can live without the other features that newer chat systems provide.