doc: remove IRC from man page

[tniessen]

Our community communication channels come and go, whether that's Freenode or Libera or Slack or whatever other community channels there were at some point, and I simply do not believe that folks regularly see this information at the end of the man page and benefit from it more than from going to our GitHub repository or website (both of which contain references to GitHub, discussions, issues, IRC, Slack, ...).

More importantly, if someone looks at the man page of an outdated version of the Node.js, this way they won't be directed at a potentially outdated or non-existing resource. (Assuming GitHub is here to stay.)

[tniessen]

There is an alternative PR #52943 by @RedYetiDev that instead adds the OpenJS Foundation Slack to the man page. However, I think that PR demonstrates that the communication channels in the man page will always eventually be outdated, so I'd rather just remove anything besides GitHub and our own website.

[RedYetiDev]

just remove anything besides GitHub and our own website.

+1

[RedYetiDev]

Also, if the initiative described in nodejs/admin#872 gets added, it'd be helpful for this to instead point to the list of support channels, as (like @tniessen mentioned) older versions wouldn't know about it from the man page.

[UlisesGascon]

LGTM!

[nodejs-github-bot]

Landed in 1945072

[artshade]

To be frank, I have no idea why you would do so, and it's sure sad to now that. I used to be on #javascript and #nodejs channels at Libera or Freenode back then for more than a decade. I got banned in those channels, but I loved the place. There have always been more than 500 skillful people discussing awesome cases and there was always a chance to discover something new and incredible. I presume it's still the same. The protocol is still active, convenient (e.g. a preview of frequent personal WeeChat setup attached), and lightweight. Though, while some IRC networks are relatively easy places to get banned and lose fairly great usernames and nerves, those socials I do miss...

Do you read XKCD too much (i.e. 1782) I am sorry?

I heartfelt believe you make a terrible mistake.

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[tniessen]

@artshade This PR does not change the status of those IRC channels at all, it merely removes any social channels from the Linux man page.