As a flourishing community of the interwebs maybe, just maybe.
IRC as a tool is certainly not dead.
Former IRCOP.
IRC as a tool is certainly not dead.
Former IRCOP.
Last time I used IRC seriously, I had to get off the train because I was chatting more on mobile than not and the mobile clients were basically un-serviceable (IIRC, protocol is too chatty and stateful for reliable connection on a device continuously changing its physical network connection).
It's little wonder to me that IRC's lunch got eaten; the UX on mobile is just awful.
I use weechat, with the glowing-bear frontend on both desktop and mobile.
In both cases, the mobile interface is a frontend for something else instead of being an actual irc client.