[smilesnd]

Yep been using IRC for over 10 years now and still love it. Always seem like any gui base chat client required more resources then they should. Also the clients didn't allow for modifications I would want/need. Also at the time getting into desktop chat clients one of the popular ones to make profit turn their client into a massive botnet selling cpu power to business. This lead me to distrust gui clients early on.

I recently had a handful of friends that wanted to get away from IRC mainly because smart phone interaction is not the best. Since we switched to keybase I feel like we talk less. Also the desktop client doesn't close without using kill command which makes me open it less.

I use IRC just for chatting with friends and strangers on internet. Shout out to the #csharp channel on freenode some great people that regularly answer questions and help people out.