GHC and the future of Freenode

[John Ericson]

And this is a good example of how both using libera.chat and having an 
official matrix bridge with a nice name can help more people use IRC too!

On 6/6/21 2:10 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:ietf-dane at dukhovni.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 19 May 2021, at 11:48 am, Carter Schonwald
>     <carter.schonwald at gmail.com <mailto: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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