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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: The status of freenode (the IRC network used by KDE)
From:       argonel <argonel () kde ! org>
Date:       2021-06-15 8:50:58
Message-ID: CANzpdtfKbTvaS5_8FgVtLTdSpfnvbiOmU+xzA_oaR=XXuPc9iw () mail ! gmail ! com
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At the moment the "old" network appears to be broken into about 4 pieces.

chat.freenode.net and irc.freenode.net point to the "new" network. The
"new" network servers have a very low limit for connections per IP
address (I don't know the number), and only 20 channels per user. I
don't recommend connecting to the "new" network from a shared service
such as bnc.kde.org.

classic.freenode.net points to the most functional piece of the "old" netwo=
rk.

If you wish to remain connected to the "old" network, replacing chat
or irc.freenode.net with classic.freenode.net may work for the time
being. I don't know for how long, nor how reliable.

~Eli

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 10:43 PM Nicol=C3=A1s Alvarez
<nicolas.alvarez@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Freenode has now set up new servers without migrating the
> nickserv/chanserv databases, and will likely turn off the old servers
> later. You could say freenode has shut down and there is now a new
> network under its name. We don't have any registered channels in the
> "new network", or even channel topics set.
>
> Are we going to move to libera.chat already?
>
> It has been more than three weeks since Andrew Lee took over. I'm
> *done* waiting for Matrix to reconfigure the bridge. Leaving it
> unbridged entirely is preferred to the current situation. You can't
> say that would split the chat community because it's already split
> anyway (there's more users in libera.chat KDE channels every day, as
> of yesterday irccloud users couldn't use freenode anymore, #kde hasn't
> been properly bridged for a long time, etc).
>
> Just tell me when and I'll switch IrcsomeBot/sKreamer/pursuivant bots
> to libera.chat, and update documentation (I already prepared commits
> for 30+ repos for this). I can also bring IrcsomeBot into Matrix rooms
> temporarily until the proper Matrix appservice is set up. But I will
> not accept any more delays caused by Matrix/EMS. Let's get out of
> freenode.
>
> --
> Nicol=C3=A1s
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