[vox] IRC drama!

[Marianne Waage]

The #boardgame channel has moved to irc.libera.chat, and it's been stable with no lag.

There were some channels hijacked after being moved to elsewhere, so it mighty make sense to leave a tiny presence, a person who points people the right way, rather than leaving it and having a topic for people to follow.

https://www.gentoo.org/news/2021/05/26/gentoo-freenode-channels-hijacked.html

There's another report by something like vhtop or something that says which user is being used by the prince. It might show with some Google-fu.

I was inclined to be lazy about migrating, but the hostile nature of the channel takeovers encourages me towards abandoning freenode more quickly. That is not the behavior of someone I trust to manage anything.

Marianne

On May 28, 2021 3:23:07 PM PDT, Timothy D Thatcher <daniel.thatcher at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello LUGOD folks,
>
>We've been IRC-only for some while now. That may change soon, we'll
>talk
>about that.
>
>But in the meanwhile...Any IRC users are probably by now aware of the
>dumb
>drama around the Freenode IRC network.
>
>As a result of all that, we're thinking of shifting our chat over to to
>either Libera.chat, or possibly oftc.net instead.
>
>Libera has the bonus of having a suddenly large userbase, with many
>FOSS
>projects from Freenode moving their channels over there, including some
>notable ones like #ubuntu, #gentoo, etc.
>
>On the other hand, OFTC has been around for much longer. But the
>flipside
>is that it does have a much smaller userbase.
>
>I'm slightly inclined to go with the crowd and point our IRC material
>over
>to Libera.
>
>Maybe it's too soon to be jumping ship at all and we should stay put.
>
>Anyone have any thoughts?
>
>Tim

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