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>>>>> On Wed, 16 Jun 2021, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> We've moved our official support channels from Freenode to Libera.chat. |
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> All that's happened afterwards pretty much proves that this was |
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> the right decision. Maybe even to the point of saying that staying |
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> on Freenode would be dangerous to our users (e.g. because of the late |
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> NickServ impersonations, ops with bad reputation etc.). |
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> However, there are still IRC clients in Gentoo that default to Freenode. |
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> I think the next questions we need to answer are: |
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> 1. Should we be proactively changing the default network in IRC clients |
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> (provided they have one) from Freenode to Libera.chat? |
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Yes. IMHO Freenode is no longer a reasonable default. |
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> 1a. If yes, then should we also make a change if clients default to |
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> network other than Freenode? |
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No. |
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> 2. Should we be proactively *removing* Freenode from the network list |
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> in IRC clients (provided they have one)? |
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No (but also don't re-add it if upstream decided to remove it). |
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> 2a. Should we be adding Libera.chat to the list even if we do not remove |
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> Freenode? |
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Yes. We have our channels there, so it is reasonable to have the network |
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in the list. |
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Ulrich |
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