I’m not on IRC, but the subreddit, the Discourse forum and the Discord server are all pretty good for this kind of thing too.
There's libera chat now. But not everyone has the idea of looking there.
It's still the case, as far as I know. Big list of channels: https://www.haskell.org/irc/
I don’t know about today, but ten years ago the answer was to hop on IRC and you’d get all of your IRC-sized non-FAQs answered, however difficult they are.