[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.