People generally use IRC for public conversations, not for private ones.
IRC is a open protocol, has a ton of different clients for different needs, almost every big FOSS project has it's own IRC channel and it requires minimal resources to run (and if you really need to, the protocol itself is really easy to implement).
What's not to like with IRC? I'm surprised people are using Slack and Discord instead of IRC for development talk.
IRC is a open protocol, has a ton of different clients for different needs, almost every big FOSS project has it's own IRC channel and it requires minimal resources to run (and if you really need to, the protocol itself is really easy to implement).
What's not to like with IRC? I'm surprised people are using Slack and Discord instead of IRC for development talk.