Not sure if this is the correct forum, mods please move if it's not
on the announcement found here you see the text
"For information, help and other chat please visit
irc.quakenet.org - irc network
#LR – irc channel"
What can happen is you can use irc:// links. irc:// works just like ftp:// or <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://">http://</a><!-- m -->. To use irc:// links the user needs to have an irc client installed that supports irc:// which is nearly all of them. So you could have:
For information, help and other chat please visit
irc.quakenet.org - irc network
#LR – irc channel
Clicking either of the links above will make the users irc client connect directly to QuakeNet and then join #LR
Hope this helps,
kat