[jolmg]

Slower probably. I doubt there aren't new people getting into IRC. You could've made your comment back when I just got into it, and IRC doesn't really seem any more dead now.

[fps_doug]

But maybe just as many as old folks leaving it for Matrix et al? Might just even it out in the grand scheme of things.

[fullstop]

Most of the people that I find on IRC are 40+.