{"id":8234,"date":"2021-09-10T08:14:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T13:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/?p=8234"},"modified":"2021-09-10T08:37:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T13:37:13","slug":"interesting-irc-changes-and-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/archives\/8234","title":{"rendered":"Interesting IRC Changes and Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Textual5.jpg\" alt=\"Textual5\" title=\"Textual5.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"\" height=\"\" style=\"float:right;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the last few months there seems to have been a lot of changes in the IRC world. Freenode <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freenode\">had<\/a> what has been called a <em>hostile takeover<\/em> by some, and a good number of high-profile projects left that network and went to Libera, which was started by some ex-Freenode folks. All this was probably a lot more traumatic for those immediately involved, and I feel for them. It also meant that for the IRC channels and projects I do follow, it meant that many went dark for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>It happens. We adapt.<\/p>\n<p>When the projects popped up on Libera, I was able to get on there, and see that they were as popular and active as ever. Sure, it's a little more diffuse than before because some didn't move, but my IRC Client on macOS - Textual, allows for <em>multiple<\/em> server connections, so that I can have Freenode and Libera connected, and the side-bar has all the channels - some on Freenode, some on Libera, and it works just fine.<\/p>\n<p>I never <em>expected<\/em> that it had multiple server connections - I just never needed them... until I did. And when I did, I was so very glad that it handled it as nicely as it did.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, to me, it looks very much like nothing changed, but I know quite a lot did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last few months there seems to have been a lot of changes in the IRC world. Freenode had what has been called a hostile takeover by some, and a good number of high-profile projects left that network and went to Libera, which was started by some ex-Freenode folks. All this was probably a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else","category-open-source-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8235,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions\/8235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}