All, Arch devs,
Arch moved to libera.chat some time ago (year+?) Today I had an issue
with spamassassin, so I had to get back on freenode to reach the
spamassassin channel. The old channel tabs for #archlinux,
#archlinux-devops and #archlinux-unregistered were saved in freenode,
and checking, there is still activity and a significant number of users
there:
#archlinux - 80 users
#archlinux-unregistered - 14 users
It says "Unofficial", but is that something you are aware of? E.g.
* Now talking on #archlinux
* Topic for #archlinux is: welcome to #archlinux. Unofficial archlinux
community. Discussion and support. -- This channel is idle alot, please
see #linux for help
* Topic for #archlinux set by riddle!riddle@PyLink/admin (Sun Jun 15
12:09:13 2025)
I'm sure somebody is happy to make use of the old channel on
freenode, and I'm sure there isn't anything wrong with it, but I was
very surprised to find them still active when I went to delete them. It
was strange enough that I thought I'd bring it to the list, so at least
Arch was aware of its continued use.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
