IRC doesn't even have working archive anymore. So it is probably just archaic and dying technology. It is not used in corporate world. It lost lots of users. It can be replaced with more advanced technologies. There are many reasons why many people are not familiar with IRC.
And the best one: anonymous coin uses certain technology for publishing its updates (IRC), but this technology doesn't work with some widely used working solution for anonymization (tor network)?
Not every e-mail provider keeps archives and it's an old technology - is e-mail dying? The corporate world doesn't use bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency - is this an argument? What more advanced technologies are you referring to and which one of them is so widely accessible as to be possible to use it with telnet? Many people are not familiar with computers, I say we stop using computers then!
As far as I am aware updates are published in this thread, but only when there is something to announce. For anybody that can't wait for an official announcement, there's IRC. I bet there are ways to join IRC through tor, probably one of the web-based clients will work.
I won't go into debate "IRC vs. other products/technologies (email, XMPP, SIP, Lync, GMail/GTalk, Campfire etc.)" because it is pointless.
I'm just trying to say that this lack of any serious communication on this thread is hurting this poor coin. Price is falling, investors are starting to lose confidence, they're even starting to think that this coin is vaporware etc.
Assuming that moosanyc (or koolio) still supports this coin: why can't he just say, for example, that he's donating 20 BTC to the developers for the development of X feature and then post the transaction ID? Somebody found in pastebin chat logs that the pumpers made very nice profits on this coin (moosa talked about 100 BTC if I remember correctly).
This lack of communication may also indicate that the whales/pumpers abandoned this project. Moosa is not posting anything on twitter about cryptcoin. Koolio is not posting anything either. Mods have started banning people on btc-e trollbox for talking about cryptcoin. There are no updates about listing on btc-e.
I still think that this coin must become much more open and transparent. The current "secrecy" is not sending the right message to the investors.