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Move IRC channel off Freenode #239

Closed minus7 closed 3 years ago

minus7 commented 3 years ago

After the hostile takeover of Freenode, it'd be best to take a stand by moving off of Freenode like many other projects already did.

Moving to libera.chat would be the most obvious choice.

minus7 commented 3 years ago

Sad to see you only keep a closed platform, but fair enough.

The IRC channel is still recognized as official by the network. Only antirez has ownership of the channel, but I have ops and can redirect users (and preferrably the lock the channel).

itamarhaber commented 3 years ago

Dear @minus7 - I wasn't aware that the room was active and didn't know who had ops/admin there. After the news hit yesterday we considered the removal and it seemed the right thing to do (remove freenode). This wasn't intended to make you sad.

I think that locking the room would be good and would appreciate it if you can make it happen. Redirection is also a possibility, even if only to the redis.io/community page.

The bigger question is whether IRC is still relevant for the project. Personally (and afaik most of the core devs) I haven't spent too much time on freenode, so I can't really attest to its need (official recognition aside). We can definitely reopen on libera or similar, but I guess what I'm wondering is whether anyone would use it. Can you share your experience from #redis on freenode and its usefulness?

minus7 commented 3 years ago

I think that locking the room would be good and would appreciate it if you can make it happen. Redirection is also a possibility, even if only to the redis.io/community page.

I already set the topic to redirect users to that page and will lock the channel in the coming days.

The bigger question is whether IRC is still relevant for the project. Personally (and afaik most of the core devs) I haven't spent too much time on freenode, so I can't really attest to its need (official recognition aside). We can definitely reopen on libera or similar, but I guess what I'm wondering is whether anyone would use it. Can you share your experience from #redis on freenode and its usefulness?

There's usually a handful of user questions per week, so definitely not completely dead. When I have a question regarding some open source project (that's beyond a quick web search), the first thing I usually try to do is join the channel with the project's name on Freenode; I assume it's the same for lots of the users that join there, too. No idea if that'd carry over to a new network.

Having an official channel (on e.g. libera) would be great, but it'd probably work fine as inofficial channel as well.

minus7 commented 3 years ago

Update: Freenode staff has seized the channel (along with 700 others) due to some new rules they made up[1]. Looks like they still let you re-register the channel if you officially represent the project in question, which other channels used to forcibly evict all users.

[1]: See "channel ownership now and before.