Currently the IRC protocol handle (irc://) is used on www.g.o for the All IRC channels page. Many in our community may not prefer to use IRC clients and/or would prefer to use IRC via web chat instead of a desktop or CLI client. Offering web chat links to the "All IRC channels" page on www.g.o page in addition to the IRC protocol handle will lower the barrier of entry for community members to receive real time chat support.[1] In particular, a few users on Reddit were struggling with ebuild development and had questions about the devmanual. It would be great to help them attain better accessibility to help via browser based real time web chat. The wiki already has a solution for this using the IRC template. [2] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comments/urz99q/comment/i95t3si/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Template:IRC
I forgot that I closed this bug back on 2023-05-02 with a couple of commits: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/sites/www.git/commit/?id=fe7c63bc855251715d9d608b844eb8231317f842 https://gitweb.gentoo.org/sites/www.git/commit/?id=560ab9810f35e77384e2ed1c492be01ec4ec546d
