# Idea: rename IRC to chat
**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/idea-rename-irc-to-chat/450955
**Category:** MusicBrainz
**Tags:** webchat, irc
**Created:** [November 11, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/idea-rename-irc-to-chat/450955 "2019-11-11T12:17:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@mfmeulenbelt](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/mfmeulenbelt)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/idea-rename-irc-to-chat/450955/1 "2019-11-11T12:17:44Z")
To quote the [summit notes](https://blog.metabrainz.org/2019/11/08/state-of-metabrainz-2019-summit-highlights/):
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> The MetaBrainz community is deeply rooted in IRC, but IRC is not an easy-to-use tool for everyone. Some folks use IRCCloud as a way to get around this, but for new contributors, IRC is not an accessible platform.
The proposed solution, chat bridges might be a good idea anyway, but it’s not going to be here anytime soon: they will have to be developed, tested etc.
Besides, I don’t think IRC is complicated, I think MB is making it complicated (may I say “as usual”? 😉 )
If you use the link to the [web chat](https://webchat.freenode.net/#musicbrainz), you only have to enter a nickname, promise you’re not a robot and start chatting. You don’t even need an account.
But to get there from the home page, you have to click on a link called “IRC” (the average user has no idea that means Internet Relay _Chat_), then you have to find out from [this wall of text](https://beta.musicbrainz.org/doc/Communication/IRC) that you need [this link](https://webchat.freenode.net/#musicbrainz) 99% of the time.
Wouldn’t it be better to just call it “Chat” in the footer and introduce the most necessary information for most users as early as possible on the page about IRC, preferably in the first line?
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### Author:  [@Freso](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Freso)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/idea-rename-irc-to-chat/450955/2 "2019-11-11T15:59:57Z")
I agree:
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_Edit:_ And now:
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