The status of freenode (the IRC network used by KDE)

[Nicolás Alvarez]

Freenode has now set up new servers without migrating the
nickserv/chanserv databases, and will likely turn off the old servers
later. You could say freenode has shut down and there is now a new
network under its name. We don't have any registered channels in the
"new network", or even channel topics set.

Are we going to move to libera.chat already?

It has been more than three weeks since Andrew Lee took over. I'm
*done* waiting for Matrix to reconfigure the bridge. Leaving it
unbridged entirely is preferred to the current situation. You can't
say that would split the chat community because it's already split
anyway (there's more users in libera.chat KDE channels every day, as
of yesterday irccloud users couldn't use freenode anymore, #kde hasn't
been properly bridged for a long time, etc).

Just tell me when and I'll switch IrcsomeBot/sKreamer/pursuivant bots
to libera.chat, and update documentation (I already prepared commits
for 30+ repos for this). I can also bring IrcsomeBot into Matrix rooms
temporarily until the proper Matrix appservice is set up. But I will
not accept any more delays caused by Matrix/EMS. Let's get out of
freenode.

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Nicolás