Tomas I’m curious if you have ever been to irc at all? If so can you elaborate
on your experiences there?
Wikipedia is an interesting website and is good for reading about a lot of
different things but it is definitely not an unbiased source of information. I
have been active in Irc almost everyday since 2014 therefore I am highly
qualified to say what is happening with irc. I was in irc when all the gamers
went dashing off to discord.
People voluntarily leaving irc doesn’t preclude the fact that irc gets attacked
regularly. There are a lot of people who don’t like discord and prefer irc. So
we have a lot of trolls /bots coming to irc to make life as miserable as
possible for the people who remain.
There are all sorts of trolls/bots saying unpleasant things, spamming and
interrupting conversations. They sometimes park themselves in channel with a
vulgar nickname. Anything they can get away with , they will do. There are
people trying to hijack channels in order to shut them down in hopes that it
will make people leave irc. There are also a lot of accounts that just sit
there and collect all information but never talk. I don’t know what they do
with the information they collect.
There were people who were happy with irc. Freenode had about 90,000 accounts
connected usually.
So someone decided something needed to be done about that, and to make a long
story short freenode was destroyed and only about 45,000 made it to Libera.
On Libera there were bots/troll attacking from from day one. Valuable members
of #fpc were prevented from creating accounts because the server was being
spammed by trolls who were creating all their alt accounts. Many of those alt
accounts would later end up on the #fpc ban list.
I should have made the channel invite only but I had this foolish notion that
it should be easy for pascal enthusiasts to find us. Well I was wrong. Not very
many pascal enthusiasts came, mostly just lurkers and trolls.
I often wonder if people still use pascal to at all. It seems kind of lonely
and programmers I know in real life want nothing to do with it. The hatred that
most people have for anything to do with pascal even though they have never
even tried fpc/Lazarus is astounding.
I want more people to discover and use fpc it’s a great project.
But all I get is harassment from trolls and people who sit on the sidelines
refusing to help. {Please disregard that last statement if you are a developer
too busy working on code it’s not directed at you}
How many people are in this mailing list reading but refuse to help with chat
support? How many people on this mailing list hate the fpc project and want to
drive it into a ditch? I don’t know.
Are there any people at all? Maybe the mailing list only has 5 people? What a
sad situation for such amazing project.
It does not have to be this way. We can turn this around.
Please pm joanna in forums if you want to help and we can create a new better
chat support. I want people new to fpc to be able to have the same type help
that I received. Currently this is not possible.___
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