How is it a nightmare? The site you linked literally just links to one of the images under here https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-in... , and not even the most useful one. It'd be more appropriate to link to the multi-arch image because there are many Bay Trail era devices stuck with a wonky 32 bit UEFI / 64 bit processor combination.

> How is it a nightmare?

Explain how to get from https://debian.org to the right download link. Measure how many clicks it involves, how much knowing exactly the right thing to look for it involves, how many paragraphs you have to wade through, how much backtracking if you go down the not obviously wrong but still wrong nonetheless path it involves. Can you even get to it from the "Get Debian" page without halting a download, truncating the url, and then digging around in a directory tree? I'm not sure, but I don't think so. In short, take yourself outside of your "I already know the right answer" head and approach it from someone else's perspective. The fact that your answer is "just use this arcane url that doesn't mean anything, is hard or impossible to find from the landing page even for an experienced person, and also isn't unambiguously googlable without exactly the right techno jargon" is striking to me.

The Debian onboarding experience for normal people is terrible.

> It'd be more appropriate to link to the multi-arch image because there are many...

I disagree with your use of the word "many" and its relevance and whether multiarch solves more problems than it causes, but I acknowledge your beliefs. ( * shrug * )

> Signal is way worse because it requires you to have the cellphone always on.

Bullcrap. Signal works fine on data alone. I have Tasker automatically turn on airplane mode when I'm on WiFi and it's never caused me to miss a Signal message.

https://github.com/wi-fi-analyzer/mdk3-master might be a better tool for the job

Or one can use bitlbee, which has been around forever and connects an IRC client to anything that works with libpurple. The full list of what it works with is here: https://wiki.bitlbee.org/

Matterbridge seems interesting as well but I haven't had time to play with it yet. https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge

In view of those more-complete, non-proprietary solutions, you have to be a chump to pay for a Slack IRC bridge.

> you have to be a chump to pay for a Slack IRC bridge

Or part of a network that doesn't want to issue generic API tokens to random users. Since this irccloud is implemented as a specific app integration, if I understand correctly this would be more appealing to administrators and moderators.