> -------Original Message------- > From: Hisham Ahmed <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: [freedom] Why irc not using freenode > Sent: 2023-06-09 20:09 > > I was viewing the IRC which had a lot of channels like: > CSS,JavaScript..etc. Now it's hard to use the IRC and I think it's > replaced by slack and discord. Can you give any thought about it?
Hisham that's a very good question and thanks for asking it on the [email protected] mailing list (it benefits everyone). First some history. Freenode started in 1995 for the benefit of the hacker, free software and open source communities that were just taking off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode In february 2021, there was corporate style take-over attempted. https://lwn.net/Articles/857140/ Since most mods and admins are volunteers, the entire team resigned in protest. They went ahead and created 'Libera Chat' https://libera.chat/about/ Almost all the major communities moved to libera.chat and lots of new IRC channels got created. Today, if you want to use IRC service and enjoy community interactions, please join Libera.chat https://libera.chat/ Does that answer your query ? warm regards Saifi.
