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It'd be nice to see a functional demo site.

It'd also be nice to have a direct link to the github repository - https://github.com/redwire/aIRChat

Why zip instead of npm distribution?

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Thanks for the suggestions! I used to have aIRChat running as a web service straight off the VPS hosting its official website, but I encountered a lot of trouble when people started connecting over it, as many IRC networks apparently limit the number of connections allowed from a single source. Having exceptions made for each network would have been a considerable challenge. There is a link to the repository under the "contributing" section of the main site, but you're definitely right that I should have something more obvious. I'll do that! I'm really not familiar with how NPM works, and I wanted to try to make the distribution as simple as possible for all users on all OSs, so I figured distributing everything the user needs in one package and providing an install script was the best I could do with my limited knowledge of package distribution. I'm definitely open to ideas about more convenient methods!

It's easy to publish a NPM package. First, create package.json by googling "package.json cheatsheet". Then type npm publish and you're done.

Looks like they do have a link in the footer (`Github` is linked):

    All of the source material is hosted on Github, and contributions of all kinds are welcome!

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