Dear fellow users,
An IRC channel has been created at freenode called #discourse. Everyone is welcome to join! 
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I wonder, is there an actual need for an IRC channel? Isn’t this supposed to be the community about Discourse?
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Maybe not ‘need’ per se, but there’s always going to be interactions and discussions that work better in one medium or another. I think offering an IRC channel is great for allowing people to have casual conversations and more off-topic dialogue with each other.
Does it have to be an actual console-ish IRC, or can it be a chat implementation like that of http://chat.stackexchange.com ?