I use IRC every day, in fact it's the best way to communicate for techies IMHO, focus on the content and no gif, emoji, images and all other nuisances that you'd get on any other platforms. I've written my <a href="https://projects.malikania.fr/irccd/" rel="nofollow">https://projects.malikania.fr/irccd/</a> bot for various tasks. Long live IRC.