Leaving Freenode for a new network • Hacker News Board

Re: Leaving Freenode for a new network

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Post by JulianWasTaken » Wed, May 19, 2021, 12:37 PM UTC

narag wrote: post #7

I had not used IRC in a long time, just checked libera.chat... it doesn't work ("software caused connection abort")

It's irc.libera.chat, and seems to work fine here, though servers are understandably dealing with a surge (particularly on nick registration).

Re: Leaving Freenode for a new network

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Post by kuroguro » Wed, May 19, 2021, 12:38 PM UTC

Q: Do accounts/channels that have been inactive for years get purged automatically?

Used to have some stuff there, not sure if it's worth the time to find the correct emails/passwords.

Re: Leaving Freenode for a new network

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Post by supermatt » Wed, May 19, 2021, 12:39 PM UTC

A gem from one of the linked chatlogs (Ariadne is security chair for Alpine linux and a prolific FOSS contributer):

  [23:07:35]  i mean, i have important work to do.  dealing with an IRC network is not really something i want to be doing this decade outside of fucking around for fun with IRCX
  [23:07:51]  i have code running on two planets

Re: Leaving Freenode for a new network

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Post by ddevault » Wed, May 19, 2021, 12:41 PM UTC

I have moved my channels to libera.chat:

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2021-05-19-liberachat/

I set up a bot which herds people on Freenode, shoot me a PM (ddevault) if you want me to /join it to your channel as well.

Re: Leaving Freenode for a new network

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Post by blibble » Wed, May 19, 2021, 12:41 PM UTC

I submitted this link under the title "freenode IRC network purchased by VPN company PIA" back in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14101538

it hit the top of the front page, and people complained about my use of the word "purchased" (including freenode staff now that seem to be extremely upset...): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14102030

needless to say the title was edited...

Re: Leaving Freenode for a new network

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Post by Thorentis » Wed, May 19, 2021, 12:44 PM UTC

Perhaps this could be the rise of Matrix many of us have been waiting for? I hope many freenode channel operators and admins encourage people in that direction, rather than trying to start alternative IRC networks that will die out.

Re: Leaving Freenode for a new network

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Post by sharken » Wed, May 19, 2021, 12:45 PM UTC

This gives a lot of context to the previous Freenode article and the resignations mentioned there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27153338

Hostile takeovers are almost never a good thing.

Re: Leaving Freenode for a new network

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Post by donw » Wed, May 19, 2021, 12:46 PM UTC

For somebody with zero context: what are the implications of this?

Re: Leaving Freenode for a new network

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Post by aliljet » Wed, May 19, 2021, 12:46 PM UTC

Pointing the entire community to a new server (ircs://irc.libera.chat/) is going to cause a huge disruption, maybe destroy the community altogether. I can't help but wonder if there's no better way. What a tragedy.

Re: Leaving Freenode for a new network

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Post by ashneo76 » Wed, May 19, 2021, 12:47 PM UTC

A. I am wondering if all of the volunteers are resigning. That would be great. B. I will move with libera. This shady hostile takeover wouldn't have to be just accepted by communities