[CREATE] server migration of the IRC channel?

[Mica Semrick]

Why not take this opportunity to jump into the future and move the chat to matrix officially?

-m

On May 24, 2021 8:39:21 AM PDT, "Timothée Giet" <animtim at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Some of you probably followed the story, some may not... To make it
>short:
>-Most (if not all) of the volunteer staff running the freenode IRC
>server have resigned because of a conflict with a company that
>took-over
>the network.
>(more info here: https://www.kline.sh/ )
>-They created a new network to replace it: libera.chat
>
>Lots of projects and communities already migrated to libera, or other
>networks.
>
>So first, the big question is:
>-Should we officially migrate the #lgm channel there?
>The biggest concern I've read against doing this right now is that
>libera is not yet bridged to matrix, so it can be an issue for those
>who
>want to rely on it to have a persistent log independent from their
>connection.
>Though such bridge is underway
>(https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/1324), but
>may not be ready before the conference.
>
>The second point is about the conference this week:
>As last year we intend to have the main discussion channel of the
>conference on IRC (at #lgm-online, keeping #lgm for side discussions).
>Considering the situation with freenode, I would feel less comfortable
>using it for the conference.
>
>So we plan to use the libera server at least for the conference. To be
>safe I already registered #lgm and #lgm-online channels on libera.
>I hope this won't be a problem. If there is strong disagreement we may
>stay on freenode for the event, but it would be better to be allowed to
>move to libera for this.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Timothée
>
>
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