[Geany-Users] Future of the IRC ...

[Lex Trotman]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 at 10:37, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 at 09:33, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
> >
> > On 2021-06-14 12:08 a.m., Dominic Hopf via Users wrote:
> > > I suggest to just head over to libera.chat with our channels as well. Just
> > > did that for example with #openrheinruhr two weeks ago or so.
> > >
> >
> > Just don't put a notice in the channel topic else it might get hijacked[0].
> >
>
> Yeah.
>
> Freenode just kicked everybody off and requires re-registering, so I
> think [0] has already happened.  I'm not gonna bother.

Oh, its now "the new freenode" and won't connect until I re-register
the nic, I'm afraid this kind of BS games means I'm out as far as IRC
goes.

(Not so)Cheers
Lex


>
> Enrico, I suggest the website should remove mention of IRC and point
> questions to github discussions since it is already set up.  At least
> until something else is arranged
>
> IM(NS)HO IRC is not suitable for developer or user communications when
> everybody is in different time zones, it sucks for that.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
> > Regards,
> > Matthew Brush
> >
> > [0]: https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/26/freenode_irc_takeover/
> >
> > > Regards,
> > > Dominic
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 11:55 PM Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> On 13.06.21 20:41, Frank Lanitz wrote:
> > >>> Hi folks,
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm sorry -- not much time lately …
> > >>> A friend brought to my attention that there have been some unfunny
> > >>> events at freenode-network where our chat is also hosted at the moment.
> > >>> To be honest I did not yet follow this topic up and really lagging
> > >>> details (Anyone can give up some details here?) -- I want to ask for the
> > >>> future of the IRC chat? What do you think?
> > >>
> > >> Xfce and Django projects (just picked those two based on personal
> > >> preferences) moved to https://libera.chat:
> > >> https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2021-June/037352.html
> > >>
> > >> I guess this would be an option for us as well.
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Enrico
> > >>
> > >> --
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