I seem to be on IRC a little less each day. As someone else said, it's definetly a totally different community over there. I can sure say that I have been visiting IRC for alot longer than i have the forums, and more frequently. But it's still good to have the forums around though, since i haven't seen some dudes that have posted in this thread for a while on IRC.
P.S. CCDART, you said IRC = Internet Related Chat.. but isn't it Internet Relay Chat?