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

[argonel]

At the moment the "old" network appears to be broken into about 4 pieces.

chat.freenode.net and irc.freenode.net point to the "new" network. The
"new" network servers have a very low limit for connections per IP
address (I don't know the number), and only 20 channels per user. I
don't recommend connecting to the "new" network from a shared service
such as bnc.kde.org.

classic.freenode.net points to the most functional piece of the "old" network.

If you wish to remain connected to the "old" network, replacing chat
or irc.freenode.net with classic.freenode.net may work for the time
being. I don't know for how long, nor how reliable.

~Eli

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 10:43 PM Nicolás Alvarez
<nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Nicolás