On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 03:52, Richard Symonds chasemewiki@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe.
But IRC is all but useless to most people - much too technical and niche - and only IT developers and those with basic IT skills know what Slack is. Despite being a Wikipedian, I only ever used it because people would insist I did to talk to them - but I'd never be able to talk to new users on it - they'd usually use email (or I'd phone them). Most professions have never heard of IRC or slack.
For those that want a more mainsteam solution discord appears to be the most active: