netsplit.de now classifies freenode as "historic" reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Vie4eiteiduic1vae3ah · 2021-07-31 04:34 >From July 2021 no more connections to freenode could be established. Probably related to Freenode now requiring SASL in order to connect therefore netsplit.de is unable to gather information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Gods_of_Sourdough · 2021-07-31 06:37 Seems ridiculous they'd require SASL. How is anybody supposed to register a nickname now if they don't have a previous one? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Atario · 2021-07-31 07:36 They've put up a webpage to do it through ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pandakekok9 · 2021-07-31 08:19 Andrew Lee: We are going to make IRC great again! Also Andrew Lee: In order to use our network you will have to register via the web. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- aZa0902 · 2021-07-31 08:33 And it seems like the Tor service got shut down too. I am therefore not going to connect to free oder ever again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Techman- · 2021-07-31 09:11 >Freenode now requiring SASL When did this happen? I have been paying less attention lately. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Atario · 2021-07-31 19:03 From what I can tell, around Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 19:13:23 UTC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- atomy · 2021-08-04 16:54 RIP freenode, required SASL, that's an efficient way to shutdown a server. Nowadays freenode-staff seems to be retarded much. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Zekro · 2021-08-05 12:25 How many users where last reported? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- someperson42 · 2021-08-05 14:02 They've made it so you have to sign up for an account with irc.com to log in. I removed freenode from my ZNC instead. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Atario · 2021-08-06 04:38 The number on the netsplit.de graph looks like it's a hair over 20K before they got cut off, but if you jump through the hoops to get in today, it's down to 10,945 as of this writing. There's [this page too,](https://www.hinner.com/ircstat/Socip_F.html) but it looks like they just got cut off somehow within the last 24 hours now as well. The telling part to me is that the daily bumps disappeared when they started requiring SASL and it's just smooth exponential decay from there, with an occasional sudden drop tossed in. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Zekro · 2021-08-06 07:36 Thanks a lot! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-08-07 20:31 [deleted]