Hey - turns out IRC is out and something a little more modern has taken it's place... A little thing called Discord!
Join our community @ https://discord.gg/JuaSzXBZrk for a pick-up game, or just to rekindle with fellow community members.
Quick editor has been enabled in VBulletin forums since 3.6, or maybe even earlier; so has been here certainly for a while. Not sure why you've been different?
/edit - if you disable Javascript / AJAX support, it would take you straight there, but this isn't really ideal.