Re: [Caml-list] IRC channels available on libera.chat

[Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>]

Hello,

Due to the behaviour of the new team on freenode, the future is clear
and has occurred much earlier than I had thought. The former freenode
staffers had been fairly good at doing things with people; the new
staffers seems to not prioritize communication and seems to have a BOFH
attitude instead.

As such everyone is quickly moving to irc.libera.chat and the control of
the #ocaml channel on freenode has been lost. Please point to
irc.libera.chat instead of irc.freenode.net in all your links.
The matrix bridge is not available but should happen soon. As for the
dicord bot, I have no control about it. In any case, it's not worth
waiting to change your links because #ocaml on freenode has been
bleeding users, which means there are far far fewer people there to
answer questions.

An explanation of what happened today. A few hours ago, it all channels
mentioning "libera" in the topic and without a group registration but
using a single # in their names have been automatically changed to
automatically redirect people to their counterparts with double ##.
Their topic has been changed. While this comes from a long-time freenode
policy, the the channel has existed for almost 18 years and staffers
never enforced it (and the group registration stuff was impossible
during a decade).  That this only applies to channels which mentioned
"libera" in their topic exemplifies well the attitude of the new
staffers.

Best,

-- 
Adrien