A non-freemium, non-profitable service in support of Free Open Source
Software (FOSS)
reddit / irc

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[deleted] · 2014-04-07 11:00

What differences does this make to any of the other BNC providers,
such as PanicBNC, bnc.im, IRCCloud (not really a ZNC but I'll stick it
here), EliteBNC, BNC4FREE, etc.

Your website does look nicely made, though. I thought you were
creating a custom IRC client kinda of like IRCCloud, but it's just
another ZNC setup...

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sprybear · 2014-04-07 15:58

Hi, TheOnlyTechman,

I'll try to put this in the best way possible.


Firrre (ProjectFirrre) is mainly a free bouncer service in support of
Free Open Source Software (FOSS) for developers and enthusiast to
connect to either Freenode IRC and/or OFTC where users are not
obligated to donate cash, no partyline channels, users are not forced
to join the IRC channel even.

There are probably a dozen free bouncer providers all with their own
methods and ways of execution, which we respect and not criticize.

The difference is that we only allow connections to FOSS-driven IRC
Networks, in which Freenode and OFTC falls into this category.

We try our level best to be professional, no OP power abuse, no admin-
is-superior, fair-and-square and zero tolerance for nonsense.

We mainly utilize SSD's and IPV6 server-side and backed by a few solid
companies as our sponsors.

We have also pledged to contribute to design and release responsive,
mobile-friendly ZNC webadmin themes/skins to the general public; open
source. As of February, we have released zncstrap — a free Twitter
Bootstrap theme for ZNC (other non-Twitter-Bootstrap themes is in the
making).

We also have a transparency policy where users are aware of full
disclosure of matters in relations to our service.

And yes, we proudly make use of a stable version of ZNC — an advanced
IRC bouncer software, server-wide.

Thank you.


Regards,

sprybear