<html><head></head><body>The #boardgame channel has moved to irc.libera.chat, and it's been stable with no lag.<br><br>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.<br><br><a href="https://www.gentoo.org/news/2021/05/26/gentoo-freenode-channels-hijacked.html">https://www.gentoo.org/news/2021/05/26/gentoo-freenode-channels-hijacked.html</a><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Marianne<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 28, 2021 3:23:07 PM PDT, Timothy D Thatcher <daniel.thatcher@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello LUGOD folks,<br></div><div><br></div><div>We've been IRC-only for some while now. That may change soon, we'll talk about that.</div><div><br></div><div>But in the meanwhile...Any IRC users are probably by now aware of the dumb drama around the Freenode IRC network.<br></div><div><br></div><div> As a result of all that, we're thinking of shifting our chat over to to either Libera.chat, or possibly <a href="http://oftc.net">oftc.net</a> instead. <br></div><div><br></div><div>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. <br></div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, OFTC has been around for much longer. But the flipside is that it does have a much smaller userbase.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm slightly inclined to go with the crowd and point our IRC material over to Libera. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Maybe it's too soon to be jumping ship at all and we should stay put.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Anyone have any thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Tim<br></div></div></div></div></div>
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