@kushal it was great back then, when wanting to talk to people of a certain project: go to Freenode, join #$ProjectName - all within seconds, using a client that consumed a few kB of memory.
@kushal you could check out something like Beeper: https://www.beeper.com/ . Still pretty new, not as smooth as one might want. An interesting project to check out though.
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