Forum:SH:Deprecation of the old IRC cgi gateway

This is ecks, here with the latest Wikia-deprecates-useful-features news. This time irc.wikia.com has been removed completely, which renders our current easily embeddable form obsolete. Just like with the deprecation of EmailUser earlier this week, Wikia made absolutely no effort to communicate with the community about this change. The apparent reason is that the domain conflicts with some internal IRC network of Wikia. I can think of plenty of ways to fix this without breaking the cgi gateway, but it seems Wikia decided to do it this way. Anyway...

all hope is not lost, for we can easily embed freenode's webchat on the wiki through the use of MediaWiki pages and tags. I've already implemented the new form on the main IRC page, and will slowly move over the WookieeProject-specific channels to the new format. Cheers, 1358  (Talk)  21:21, February 23, 2014 (UTC)