Oh sorry, I just meant a way to get friends comfortable with IRC by having a simple doc that says how to use Glowing Bear in front of a simple weechat config so that they could easily move to IRC vs. slack. i.e. even using freenode with a modern web interface. I've seen the wee-chat-slack plugin, but it feels wrong using a normal IRC client to a heavy web stack.
I've never tried Glowing Bear. Maybe that would be a nice way for friends to get comfortable with IRC?