[oneandoneis2]

I'm permanently logged in to over a dozen channels. They're all related to some open-source project or other.

In my experience, IRC today is a godsend if you want to talk to techie types, and largely pointless for anything else.

So it'd be no surprise to me if most of the people reading HN use IRC all the time, whilst the majority of the rest of the world considers it dead (if it's heard of it at all)