The sidebar currently links to #libreoffice-ask on Freenode. There are no people on that channel. On the other hand, #libreoffice on Freenode has 113 nicks at the time of writing. The link to the channel should be fixed to point to #libreoffice.
The same problem is on Ask’s wiki page linked to in the sidebar.
Changing the sidebar to #libreoffice seems fine to me. My hope was that we’d get more meta-discussion in #libreoffice-ask, but everyone who visits the channel is just looking for user support, so #libreoffice is probably a better target.
Thanks, done …