Do people still use IRC? Why?

[afriendinspeed]

I recently came back to using Pidgin because Discord stopped working for whatever reason and I noticed thousands of people on IRC. That would be my own reason, plus nostalgia. But what about the other people? Is it the same? Is it something more?
edit: most of the channels had 2-3k people each but they were all kinda dead...no messages, no responses, so now I'm thinking.. what if they're just bots?

 

[Jayro]

It's the HAM radio of the digital world.

 

[notsu]

Yes. Mostly because I HATE discord.

 

[subcon959]

I don't use it anymore but I have huge nostalgia for it as I met my wife on irc more than 20 years ago!

 

[veggav]

I don't use it anymore but I have huge nostalgia for it as I met my wife on irc more than 20 years ago!

That sounds so familiar.

I've met my wife on IRC as well in 2003.
It's such a nostalgic feeling, listening to mp3 on winamp and chatting on IRC.

I don't use it anymore for a simple reason that in my native language there's zero servers, nobody uses it anymore.
And lack of time to just sit down and chat with strangers.