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New IRC Network For Open Source Projects

Posted by timothy on from the you-have-been-kicked dept.

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."

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  1. Sorry, but.... by pomac · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm kinda amazed that all opensource projects use cluttered and amazingly annoying ircd's.

    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.