I’ve still got a fancy IRC setup with a bouncer and whatnot.
These days discord has pretty much taken over its niche though, and it’s what I’m on 99% of the time outside of chatting with the community for a half-dead 20 year old game. But, not long ago in my lifetime IRC was 100% the way to go for this sort of text chat, and a lot of that still exists. And well, it’s absolutely dead simple and resilient as a protocol.
Yeah, nothing manages great endurance when you start mashing the throttle.. Does always make me wonder how much they have in the tank when I see that shit, though.