New IRC Network For Open Source Projects 35
Anonymous Coward writes "The folks over at Tech Tower IRC have decided to turn their small IRC network into a place for Open Source projects. They have also changed some policies to allow users on their networks to help shape the network, the big one is holding public meetings to discuss the network. Could this be the next freenode? They are also asking for individuals that wish to found general channels, this means that if you are lucky, you can lead the next #linux."
next freenode? (Score:4, Insightful)
why do you need a new irc network? has there really been some open source folks thinking that "oh gosh, i'd like to have an irc channel for this project.. but damn i can't do it on any of the currently online free servers"?
was someone too bored again?
Re:next freenode? (Score:1, Troll)
Re:next freenode? (Score:5, Insightful)
Personally, I've never had any troubles with warez and porn on Freenode, so I don't even know what you're complaining about.
Re:next freenode? (Score:3, Informative)
So, in short- why not just use freenode?
Re:next freenode? (Score:2)
or a dozen other irc-networks.
freenode also has chanserv and other associated helpers so there's no point in starting a new irc-network for having them.
Re:next freenode? (Score:2)
And since when was #linux a pinnacle of excellence?
Re:next freenode? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:next freenode? (Score:1)
So whats wrong with Freenode? (Score:2, Insightful)
I just don't get it.
Re:So whats wrong with Freenode? (Score:3, Insightful)
But, geeks like to feel important some times, so they, instead of helping the current system be better, they just make thier own thing. Which is ultimately destructive to the community, because that means there are less quality in the networks and people, usually.
Re:So whats wrong with Freenode? (Score:1)
half there half here (Score:3, Informative)
That said, I snatched up #linux
Re:half there half here (Score:1)
What's wrong with freenode? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What's wrong with freenode? (Score:1)
See recursion, you insensitive clod
before an admin sees (Score:1)
Could this be the next freenode? (Score:2)
channels (Score:1)
Oh yeah? Well I have ops on #c++ and #openbsd! beat that!
Re:channels (Score:1)
Re:channels (Score:1)
Re:channels (Score:3, Funny)
Next! (Score:5, Insightful)
So what you're saying is... (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry, but.... (Score:4, Interesting)
Like freenodes dancer:
Server There are 9541 victims and 10397 hiding on 24 servers
But if you do lusers again it states:
Server server load is temporarily too heavy, please try again later?
But ircu based networks has no problems with:
Server There are 41787 users and 74748 invisible on 31 servers
Unreal is to me a insane server to use...
I'm just waiting for a "opensource projects network" to use something sane. But then working on ircclients and servers i guess i'm biased, esp since i prefer Undernets ircd.
Until someone does a OpenSource p2p im system that is totally distributed etc etc etc, and ppl actually use it. Then just let programmers use whatever network they feel like using.
Re:Sorry, but.... (Score:1)
dancer is a heavily bastardised version of hybrid that I submitted a small amount of work for before deciding I, uh, disagreed with their (mainly lilo's) policies.
Re:Sorry, but.... (Score:1)
And thanks for that piece of information i actually didn't know that it was based on hybrid. I only know that it causes problems due to broken 005 replies and stuff like that.
(But as i stated before, i'm a ircu person myself =))
PS. What are youre thoughts about unreal then? =)
DS.
Why another? (Score:2)
Exactly. (Score:2)
In short, "meh".
IRC Protocol versus SILC, what's wrong with IRC? (Score:1)
SILC [silcnet.org] is unicode-only, encrypt-only, allows MIME messages, uses a hybrid topology to be netsplit resistant, etc.
SILC isn't fully p2p as one poster suggested, but it's a lot better than IRC.