[mattl]

You need to go where your community is. If your audience is primarily on IRC, you can't just ignore it.

[scrollaway]

At the end of 2014, I was in a solid ~40 irc channels and active in maybe 15 of them.

Today, I'm in 10 and active in none. All the channels I left, even some of the ones I'm still in now, have switched to Discord, Slack or Matrix. The two only channels I care about are actually both mirrored on Discord using the excellent Matterbridge (https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/).

I was a heavy IRC user. The audience is gone.