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@@ -4,11 +4,6 @@ Serde welcomes contribution from everyone in the form of suggestions, bug
 reports, pull requests, and feedback. This document gives some guidance if you
 are thinking of helping us.
 
-Please reach out here in a GitHub issue or in the #serde IRC channel on
-[`irc.mozilla.org`] if we can do anything to help you contribute.
-
-[`irc.mozilla.org`]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC
-
 ## Submitting bug reports and feature requests
 
 Serde development is spread across lots of repositories, but this serde-rs/serde