There are plenty of people using IRC, but many of them don't know it. There are chatroom/IRC hybrids, generally on forum sites. You embed the chat window in a web page, and anyone can join in. Those who want can use any IRC client to get to the same channel, but with more features.
http://www.irchighway.net/ http://mibbit.com/
Janine
Sarah Stierch wrote:
Exactly. IRC is for the old school and ubergeek. And as Sue has said in the past - we're only going to "retain" specific types of people to be long term editors (ubergeeks like us) but, if we can figure out a solution to help out the "average joe/sphine" editor...