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 :heart: The Haskell tooling dream is near, we need your help! :heart:
 
-- Join [our IRC channel](https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=haskell-language-server) at `#haskell-language-server` on `freenode`.
-- Fork this repo and [ghcide](https://github.com/haskell/ghcide) and hack as much as you can.
+- Join [our IRC channel](https://web.libera.chat/?channels=#haskell-language-server) at `#haskell-language-server` on [`libera`](https://libera.chat/).
 
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