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Freenode
Founded
1995; 29 years ago (1995) as irc.linpeople.org 1998; 26 years ago (1998) as irc.openprojects.net 2002; 22 years ago (2002) as irc.freenode.net
Geographic location
Europe
United States
Australia
(as of 2015)
Website URL
freenode.net
Primary DNS
irc://chat.freenode.net/
Freenode, stylized as freenode and formerly known as Open Projects Network, is an IRC network which was previously used to discuss peer-directed projects.[1] Their servers are accessible from the hostname chat.freenode.net, which load balances connections by using round-robin DNS.[2][3]
On 19 May 2021, Freenode underwent what some staff described as a "hostile takeover"[4] and at least 14 volunteer staff members resigned.[5] Following the events, various organisations using Freenode – including Arch Linux, CentOS, FreeBSD, Free Software Foundation Europe, Gentoo Linux, KDE, LineageOS, Slackware, Ubuntu, and the Wikimedia Foundation – moved their channels to Libera Chat, a network created by former Freenode staff.[6][7][8] Others like Haiku or Alpine Linux moved to the Open and Free Technology Community (OFTC).[9][10] By 16 August 2021, over a thousand projects had left Freenode.[11][self-published source]
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^Salter, Jim (24 May 2021). "Freenode IRC staff resign en masse after takeover by Korea's "crown prince"". Ars Technica. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
^"Major Internet Projects Are Leaving Freenode After Korean Prince 'Takeover'". www.vice.com. 26 May 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
^"Arch Linux - News: Move of official IRC channels to libera.chat". archlinux.org. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
^"Haiku's IRC channels are moving to OFTC!". Haiku Project. 19 May 2021. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
^"Switching to OFTC". alpinelinux.org. 19 May 2021. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
^Siraphob, Ben (16 August 2021). "Projects and channels that have decided to leave Freenode". GitHub. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
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networks such as Freenode have not followed the overall trend and have more than quadrupled in size during the same period. However, Freenode, which in 2016...
future service disruptions. On June 19, 2009 it was banned permanently from freenode, and a new officially supported open-source AJAX client was introduced...
cross-site scripting and inter-protocol exploitation) to cause users of the Freenode IRC network to unknowingly flood IRC channels after visiting websites containing...
the original on August 26, 2012. Retrieved October 28, 2012. "IRC logs: freenode / #whatwg / 20111122". Archived from the original on December 4, 2011....
association against mafias Libera Chat, IRC network created in 2021 by former Freenode staff members Libera Università Mediterranea, an Italian university Libera...
website hosting user-posted chat logs from IRC. "Channel Guidelines". freenode.net. Archived from the original on 2015-07-02. "How one man tracked down...
American fiction writer Rob Levin (1955–2006), also known as lilo, founder of freenode Bobby Levin (born 1957), American bridge player Robert Levine (disambiguation)...
IRC channels. Although EFnet and OFTC were able to block the attacks, Freenode struggled to counteract the attacks. Goatse Security exposed the vulnerability...
[sic] to join juped channel ?" on EFnet forums". Retrieved 2013-03-13. "Freenode, Using the network". Archived from the original on 2007-02-26. Retrieved...
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e2ee in Personal message by default. e2ee must be enabled for group chat Freenode, snoonet, gitter, OFTC. Can bridge to many other services 2117 matrix nodes...
the shortlist and I'm pleased to say that Jono Bacon (a.k.a. jono on IRC.freenode.net, pictured here playing his own interpretation of Hamlet) will be stepping...
Technology Community in late 2001 when OpenProjects.net split into OFTC and Freenode where he was elected to four terms as president and remains as honorary...
networks like Freenode have not followed the overall trend and have more than quadrupled in size during the same period. As of 2016, Freenode is the largest...
including Debian, the Wikimedia Foundation, Blender (software), Free Geek, freenode, and OpenSSH. A typical grant was $500/month with renewable 6 and 12-month...
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