Thread:Kogath/@comment-3090213-20150808100455/@comment-184612-20150811083709

IRC was great when we didn't have an internal chat for Wikia, but now there's no need for it. Same with the old forums. It's part of Wikia, controlled by staff at Wikia, and is for the Wikia. We've become an official Wikia that is backed by Capcom, as well as receiving quite a bit of support from Wikia Central, and I'd like to keep it that way.

I had tried to talk to shirt about it a long time ago, but he never wanted to give up any control for it. We have our staff here, and there's no need to worry anything going wrong or it being controlled by people that aren't even part of our staff.

While yes, Chat is still in beta here, things still work as intended. If someone wants something linked to a Wikia page, all they have to do is use the proper coding, or just look it up on the Wikia since they're already here. You can also try talking to Wikia Central with ideas to improve the chat.

I would welcome older IRC members into the Wikia chat no problem (as long as any of them aren't banned users), but the answer is definitely no to any sort of outside modification to the official Wikia chat.