Freenode and libera.chat

Jeremy Stanley fungi at yuggoth.org
Thu May 20 12:08:16 UTC 2021


On 2021-05-19 13:49:33 +0000 (+0000), Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2021-05-19 14:19:02 +0100 (+0100), Erno Kuvaja wrote:
> [...]
> > I think it's our time to take swift action and show our support to
> > all the hard working volunteers who were behind freenode and move
> > all our activities to irc.libera.chat.
> [...]
> 
> In past years when the stability of Freenode's service came into
> question, we've asserted that OFTC would probably have been a better
> home for our channels from the beginning (as they're more aligned
> with our community philosophies), but we ended up on Freenode mostly
> due to the Ubuntu community's presence there. We'd previously been
> unable to justify the impact to users of switching networks, but
> there seemed to be consensus that if Freenode shut down we'd move to
> OFTC. The earliest concrete proposal I can find for this was made in
> March 2014, but it's come up multiple times in the years since:
> 
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-March/028783.html
> 
> Honestly I'd be concerned about moving to a newly-established IRC
> network, and would much prefer the stability of a known and
> established one.

I've also spent last night catching up all our channel registrations
on OFTC. The ~150 active channels in which we operate our IRC bots
are now registered to us there and under our control, with a handful
of exceptions where I need to follow up with folks today to get our
accessbot account added. Switching to OFTC at this point would be
fairly quick, at least from an infrastructure perspective.
-- 
Jeremy Stanley
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