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by 0_____0 1837 days ago
RIP Freenode. Ye are yet one more IRC diaspora amongst the many before, but being one of the last major holdouts of IRC, I do believe this to be the end of an era. Godspeed.
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mulmen 1837 days ago
Sounds like most of the channels moved to the irc.libera.chat network. So the net change in IRC use is less than it looks.
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bigiain 1837 days ago
> RIP Freenode

Rot in hell, more like.

(I haven't really used irc in maybe a decade, but I think I'll go work out what software I should use to chat on Libera Chat... Is scary devil monastery still a thing?)

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Doxin 1836 days ago
The libera.chat website has some guidance on IRC clients[0] but personally I'd recommend HexChat[1]. It's as close to a reference implementation of irc as you can get.

[0] https://libera.chat/guides/clients [1] https://hexchat.github.io/

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mulmen 1837 days ago
Yeah. I have been meaning to reconnect with IRC for a while. This seems like a good time.
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hprotagonist 1836 days ago
irssi is more or less eternal. weechat (not wechat) is more or less a less shitty irssi.
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