On 16.6.2021 12.13, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
> 
> We've moved our official support channels from Freenode to Libera.chat.
> All that's happened afterwards pretty much proves that this was
> the right decision.  Maybe even to the point of saying that staying
> on Freenode would be dangerous to our users (e.g. because of the late
> NickServ impersonations, ops with bad reputation etc.).
> 
> However, there are still IRC clients in Gentoo that default to Freenode.
> I think the next questions we need to answer are:

Examples? Is the list huge?
https://packages.gentoo.org/categories/net-irc

> 
> 1. Should we be proactively changing the default network in IRC clients
> (provided they have one) from Freenode to Libera.chat?

Yes.

> 
> 1a. If yes, then should we also make a change if clients default to
> network other than Freenode?

IMO yes.

> 
> 2. Should we be proactively *removing* Freenode from the network list
> in IRC clients (provided they have one)?

Classic or Future Freenode? ;)
(yes, there is no Freenode anymore)

> 
> 2a. Should we be adding Libera.chat to the list even if we do not remove
> Freenode?

Yes.

Ideally all these would be taken care by upstream. Which might provoke
some version updates to dear old IRC clients...

Anyhow I can also imagine leaving these up to package maintainers, and
this mail to work as an encouragement.

-- juippis