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 ### Chatting
-We on irc! You can come chat with us in the ```#flask-jwt-extended``` channel on freenode.
+We are on irc! You can come chat with us in the ```#flask-jwt-extended``` channel on ```freenode```.
 
 
 ### Testing and Code Coverage