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 The library is functional, but there are likely issues
 we didn't find in our own testing. Please give feedback
-in #opus on irc.freenode.net or at opus@xiph.org.
+in #opus on irc.libera.chat or at opus@xiph.org.
 
 Programming documentation is available in tree and online at
 https://opus-codec.org/docs/