Does anyone still use old-school IRC for an s3x chat?

Made an account specifically to ask this one — use old-school IRC for an s3x chat, and where people actually land on it.

The frustrating part about use old-school is that the honest answers are buried in comment sections, not articles.

I've asked this in two other places and got answers that clearly came from people who'd never touched use old-school.

Concretely, for use old-school, these are my criteria:

• Whether the free tier on use old-school is genuinely usable or just a demo
• Whether chat makes any material difference to use old-school
• How long use old-school takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all
• How visible use old-school keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• What happens to your data if you delete a use old-school account

If you've actually used something relevant to use old-school, I'd rather hear that than a recommendation you read somewhere.

Worth noting that nobody in this thread has agreed on use old-school yet, which is itself an answer.

Set a deadline when you try use old-school, or it becomes a scrolling habit rather than an actual search.

The cheap test for use old-school is whether you can send one message without a card, and if you cannot, move on.

Since we're comparing options around use old-school, the Ezhookups boards came up when I was looking at the same thing.

I'd qualify this: use old-school works fine if you're in a city, less so otherwise.

the Datelink forums is what I ended up using while working through use old-school — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

Which parts of use old-school have you already tested, so nobody here repeats it back to you?

For anyone else researching use old-school, I would put Datingfly.online on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

If use old-school is the question, the Datedesire boards is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.