On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 09:42:36AM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 08:10:40PM +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > I've gone ahead and moved wayita to libera. > > > > I wanted to keep a copy on freenode, but forgot to change the pointer to > > the sqlite database, and I'm not sure whether it's possible to use the > > same set of factoids for two different IRC servers. > > So far there were no objections to moving off freenode. > Can we go ahead and mark our freenode channels as unofficial or otherwise > close them somehow? > > Be prepared for a possibility of losing control of our freenode channels. > This morning there were channel takeovers on freenode, of channels which > mention the competing libera network in their topic. Two examples of many: > > https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/nl74hc/freenode_has_unilaterally_taken_over_haskell/ > > https://i.imgur.com/k5xAud4.png >
I've marked the channels as no longer used and moved to libera.chat in the topic. Arfrever had the idea of rendering libera.chat in wide unicode letters instead of ascii, which might escape a potential freenode channel takeover script for a while.
