[ayushnix]

To be fair, https://dontasktoask.com/ should be basic etiquette on any chat platform at this point. I understand that some people may not be familiar with this etiquette but I won't be surprised if someone doesn't receive a response to "Hello anyone here?". What does one expect in this case? If there are 13 people online, all of them should reply "Yes, I'm here"?

[foxes]

I think you missed the point.

Irc is basically a ghost town apart from random noise compared to other popular communication channels.

[ayushnix]

Ah, yes, smaller channels can certainly seem that way and the join leave logs are basically spam.

For what it's worth, I've been active on three channels in the past few months — #openwrt on OFTC, #vim and #neovim on Libera. I've always got responses fairly quickly on #openwrt and #vim.