IRC Closed
Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 6:13 am
Hello Folks!
It saddens me to announce that after over 14 years the Transcendence IRC Channel has been closed on freenode. We still have a channel on https://libera.chat (a new network). Many of you in the community were a part of it early on and some of the coolest projects to come from and for Transcendence (Stars Beyond and Xelerus) came from the IRC channels we ran. For many it was a amazing community where people were friends even if they were across the world.
In recent years we have slowly migrated to Discord (https://discord.gg/ehjVtVbMNd) and hope to see you there!
This all began because the freenode IRC network was taken over by (apparently hostile) external parties in much IRC-like drama. Except this included legal threats and the potential for data to be sold. Shortly after that the new owners/managers of freenode took over channels. Which leaves us at the point now where #transcendence or ##transcendence now are no longer considered official or recommended community venues.
If anyone wants to post in this thread some great IRC memories that they had, it would be nice to remember the good times.
It saddens me to announce that after over 14 years the Transcendence IRC Channel has been closed on freenode. We still have a channel on https://libera.chat (a new network). Many of you in the community were a part of it early on and some of the coolest projects to come from and for Transcendence (Stars Beyond and Xelerus) came from the IRC channels we ran. For many it was a amazing community where people were friends even if they were across the world.
In recent years we have slowly migrated to Discord (https://discord.gg/ehjVtVbMNd) and hope to see you there!
This all began because the freenode IRC network was taken over by (apparently hostile) external parties in much IRC-like drama. Except this included legal threats and the potential for data to be sold. Shortly after that the new owners/managers of freenode took over channels. Which leaves us at the point now where #transcendence or ##transcendence now are no longer considered official or recommended community venues.
If anyone wants to post in this thread some great IRC memories that they had, it would be nice to remember the good times.