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One week of Libera Chat

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Re: One week of Libera Chat

#141
post #6

The noteworthy (IMO, obviously) communities/projects that I have seen jump ship (either voluntarily or by force) are wikimedia & wikimedia, ubuntu, gentoo, centos, kde, postgres, sourcehut, wesnoth, mutt, vim, emacs, lisp, scheme, clojure, haskell. Any other ones that I haven't seen yet?

Perl

Re: One week of Libera Chat

#142
post #6

The noteworthy (IMO, obviously) communities/projects that I have seen jump ship (either voluntarily or by force) are wikimedia & wikimedia, ubuntu, gentoo, centos, kde, postgres, sourcehut, wesnoth, mutt, vim, emacs, lisp, scheme, clojure, haskell. Any other ones that I haven't seen yet?

The Bitcoin community has moved / is moving to Libera; I think #bitcoin was the second-largest freenode channel, after #ubuntu.

Re: One week of Libera Chat

#143
post #135

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I use discord almost daily and didn't even notice any changes. The UI is still garbage and it still makes random notification sounds with no indication as to why.

The random notification sounds are because default server notification settings are set by the server owner. So when you join a server, its notification setting could be "all messages" or "mentions only" depending on what the server owner set. This setting only affects the notification sound (it doesn't badge the server or anything), so it's easy to misunderstand.

If it's easy to misunderstand then it's bad UX. Discord's chat could learn a lot from Slack and Mattermost (but then again, so could Signal, Skype and Teams). Their videoconf however is top notch.

Re: One week of Libera Chat

#145
post #93

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3.2k commits as of now: https://github.com/search?p=6&q=libera&type=Commits

> 3.2k commits as of now: https://github.com/search?p=6&q=libera&type=Commits Not all "libera" commits on GitHub related to "Libera Chat" There are 470 commits for "libera chat"/"libera.chat"[0,1] [0] https://github.com/search?q=libera+chat&type=Commits [1] https://github.com/search?q=libera.chat&type=Commits

Indeed but note that if you search for "libera chat" or "libera.chat" (I think they are equivalent, github's search doesn't recognize punctuation I think), it filters out the commits that don't mention both "libera" "chat" in the commit message, and only turns up those that do. In particular, github's commit search does not search diffs, only commit messages, so even if the diff contains libera.chat, it won't turn up until the commit message also mentions it.

Re: One week of Libera Chat

#146
post #67

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It's an English word, you can listen to it here: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/libera

Wiktionary, which I usually find to be more comprehensive and accurate than the commercial dictionaries, lists 'libera' as a word in Esperanto, Galician, Ido, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish. But not English. Regardless, it doesn't seem like a challenging word to me, somebody who has only ever spoken English. I just pronounce it like it's written, "lib-eh-ra", it never occurred to me that this world…

Ly-bār’-uh

Leeb’-er-uh

Lee-bār’-uh

Lib’-er-uh

I have no idea, and I don’t see how it can be construed as unambiguous.

Re: One week of Libera Chat

#147
post #6

The noteworthy (IMO, obviously) communities/projects that I have seen jump ship (either voluntarily or by force) are wikimedia & wikimedia, ubuntu, gentoo, centos, kde, postgres, sourcehut, wesnoth, mutt, vim, emacs, lisp, scheme, clojure, haskell. Any other ones that I haven't seen yet?

Looking at https://freenode.net/static/img/wikimedia-forced-move.png the forced part is by people on the projects. Honestly, that sort of stuff is the main reason I stopped using IRC. I can completely believe that someone decided to do that and it shows contempt for the community it says they want to have.

It's easy to say the community moved when you kick and ban everyone from a channel and create a new channel on a different network. But how many people actually moved? Did they just damage their own community over this?

Re: One week of Libera Chat

#148

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Can you prove that this Ideell Förening exists? Can you prove that libera.chat domain name is registered on behalf of that org? These are things that should be provable! Anyone can say: "I am the chairperson of an Ideell Förening called Libera Chat, and it holds every privacy protected domain on the planet (apart from the ones you know of that belong to others).". Prove me wrong. Show the official registration inform…

As has already been explained by others in this thread (e.g. [1]); we are still waiting for the Swedish tax authority to get back to us. We will be happy to publish a registration number when we are assigned one. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27289911

But that explanation was given an hour after the question was asked. I think a lot of the downvotes vor supermatt are caused by HN's sorting by freshness, so many people read his slightly aggressive question after the answers, which makes it sound much more obnoxious than it actually has been in context. [Edit:] And of course as a reaction to asking the same question over and over again.

Re: One week of Libera Chat

#149
post #46

How is Libera meant to be pronounced? L-eye-beer-ah, or maybe "liberal" without the trailing ell? Freenode was such a great name, this one is hard to warm up to in the same way.

Lee-beh-ra, as "libera" (he/she/it frees) in Spanish.

Re: One week of Libera Chat

#150
post #136
post #113

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When the IRC gateway stopped working, I found https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack worked pretty well. But I switched employers months ago and no longer have to use Slack, which is even better! (So, I don't know how well it works today.)

You have to install it as an app on slacks side. Some employers don’t allow that.

There used to be two variants that worked; I think the other is "session tokens?"[0]

Not sure if that approach still works, or not.

[0]: https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack#get-a-session-token

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