GHC and the future of Freenode

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Sun Jun 6 18:10:36 UTC 2021


Pasting directly into the channel is generally a no-no on IRC. Things like
Matrix or IRCCloud convert to pastebins automatically.

On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 2:07 PM Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane at dukhovni.org>
wrote:

> On 19 May 2021, at 11:48 am, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I personally vote for irc.  Perhaps via Libera.
>
> Perhaps I'm too much of an IRC noob, but I still found it it rather
> surprising to be banned from libera.chat (my IP is blacklisted) for
> pasting a 25-line build script for building GHC via hadrian on FreeBSD
> into the #ghc channel.
>
> This was in response to a discussion about issues with the bindist,
> how the port is built, ... and while perhaps I'm expected to use a
> paste bin, the abrupt ban was rather a harsh response.
>
> The ban appears to have been "temporary", an hour or so later I am
> able to reconnect, but this does not leave a good impression.
>
> --
>         Viktor.
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