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

[Enrico Tröger]

On 15.06.21 23:17, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On 15.06.21 03:22, Lex Trotman wrote:
>> 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
> 
> :(
> I have to agree so much.
> 
> 
>>> 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
> 
> I've prepared the website update:
> https://github.com/geany/www.geany.org/pull/30
> 
> I'm going to merge this soon, probably on Saturday or Sunday.
> For now, we would remove IRC altogether from the website without any
> replacement.

Forgot to mention, I would also add a news item on the website to make
the removal more visible.