[HN Gopher] Ergo IRC Server
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Ergo IRC Server
Author : loo
Score : 31 points
Date : 2021-09-12 20:38 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (ergo.chat)
(TXT) w3m dump (ergo.chat)
| superkuh wrote:
| https://ergo.chat/nope
|
| >Copyright (c) 2019-2021 Daniel Oaks <daniel@danieloaks.net>
|
| >Copyright (c) 2019-2021 Shivaram Lingamneni
| <slingamn@cs.stanford.edu>
|
| https://danieloaks.net/ is behind this. Notice all the companies
| associated with Ergo IRC Server are the same as those that are
| associated with Andrew Lee and the freenode take-over and death.
| shells.com londontrustmedia handshake.
| danieloaks wrote:
| Oh haha, hey! I was employed by Andrew across a fair few of his
| companies (I didn't know Shells.com was owned by him while I
| was working there though). Buuuut this is entirely unrelated to
| him, same as my other project https://ircdocs.horse/
|
| It's totally fair to make that link, but I very explicitly told
| everyone over at LTM/H (including PIA and Handshake) that
| Oragono/Ergo and ircdocs were not work projects in any way. And
| while I was working on Shells.com, I was very explicit that I
| wouldn't be touching any IRC stuff for money while there.
|
| But yeah, it's definitely good to be wary of these kinda links,
| given what happened to snoo's and fn/libera's team. If you
| wanna ask any more questions about my stuff in particular, feel
| free to ask here or send me a mail at daniel@danieloaks.net
| progval wrote:
| Andrew Lee has nothing to do with Ergo. Daniel used to be his
| employee (before the freenode takeover), but Ergo wasn't part
| of the job at all.
| [deleted]
| prox wrote:
| What's the context here? Not familiar with these names.
| dijit wrote:
| Freenode takeover stuff.
|
| It's a long and drawn out drama.
| gman83 wrote:
| https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-
| bee...
| MaxLeiter wrote:
| You'll have a hard time finding IRC related projects not
| touched by andrew in some way.
| blibble wrote:
| most of the older large IRC networks wanted nothing to do
| with him
|
| (having seen people like him many times before...)
| Thorentis wrote:
| I've noticed some collaboration between shells.com and Linux
| Mint. Do you know if Andrew is involved or trying to become
| involved in Linux Mint? I love that distro and community and
| don't want to see it damaged by this man.
| cassepipe wrote:
| One sure thing is the Linux Mint help channel is not on
| Freenode (but SpotChat)
| slingamn wrote:
| As the co-maintainer of Ergo, since I joined the project in
| 2017 it has never (to the best of my knowledge) received any
| funding from Andrew Lee or any company affiliated with him.
|
| It should be noted that for many years, Andrew Lee was a
| welcome and valued sponsor of the IRC development community. In
| particular, he sponsored the development of KiwiIRC, InspIRCd,
| and public IRC specifications and documentation:
| <https://irc.com/blog/development-updates>
|
| I have never seen anything to suggest that his support of IRC
| development prior to May 2021 was tainted by a malicious
| agenda; the events of this year came as a great surprise to me.
| But in any case, we never got any funding or input into
| technical decisions from him. As far as I know, he doesn't know
| we exist. In terms of ongoing specification and development
| work, we take direction primarily from the IRCv3 working group,
| in which we are both participants: <https://ircv3.net/charter>
| someguy101010 wrote:
| Inspircd is what I've been hacking on lately and I have been
| pretty satisfied thus far. Easy to extend codebase in c++.
| dijit wrote:
| Honestly if I was starting again I'd set up a single Oragono[0]
| instance and be done with it.
|
| Other software might be excellent (inspircd), but it's a hard
| sell to bring a new type of server unless it solves a specific
| problem.
|
| _EDIT_ : Oragono has been renamed and is now this.
|
| Leaving here because the world should bask in my foolishness
| tldrthelaw wrote:
| Cool, but is anyone using IRC day to day in 2021? Not trying to
| be snarky, I'd love to, just don't know where I'd be.
| progval wrote:
| https://netsplit.de/ keeps some stats and a channel directory
| ekianjo wrote:
| Yup still using because its dead simple to self host.
| fallat wrote:
| Lots of people use IRC still. Libera being probably the
| biggest.
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