Updated Privacy Policy
With GDPR coming into effect tomorrow, 25 May 2018, freenode has made some amendments to its privacy policy to provide clarification relating to GDPR compliance. In the event that you do not consent to...
View ArticleServices maintenance and password security
We recently took our services (NickServ and friends) offline for maintenance to ensure encrypted storage of the services database. During this process, we accidentally started services with an empty...
View ArticleAnnouncement: jobs.freenode.net - New Service
Over the last two decades, we have found that a variety of freenode community members have reached out to us when they have been involved in the hiring process at their places of work. We have always...
View Articlefreenode and irc.com
In light of the two ongoing threads on Hacker News and Reddit concerning LTMH and irc.com, we have had a fair few freenode users contact us with questions as to whether irc.com will replace and/or...
View Articlefreenode Security Update: Reused Password Attack
In the very early hours of today (Friday 29 June 2018), we became aware of unauthorised attempts to access a substantial number of freenode accounts. This appears to be the result of an attacker using...
View Articlefreenode #live 2018: Welcoming (some of) this year's keynote speakers
It is with a great deal of excitement that I can announce some of this year's keynote speakers for freenode #live. The entire freenode team is excited to be welcoming the following FOSS rockstars to...
View ArticleCurrent spambot attack on freenode (and elsewhere)
Many of you will have noticed that over the last few days there has been an extensive spambot wave on freenode, and on other networks. The fairly aggressive spambot attacks link to websites that we...
View ArticleContinued and persistent spambot attack and clarification
As you may be aware there has been a prolonged spambot attack directed at freenode (and other IRC networks) in recent weeks, targeting a number of individuals involved with freenode and the wider IRC...
View ArticleSpam filtering
Hi, As most of you are aware, we've been experiencing significant spam over the past few weeks. As a result, we have decided to roll out a server-side spam filter. Unlike our current spam-mitigating...
View ArticleDid you hear? freenode #live is coming to town!
A little over a month from now, the second freenode #live will take place at We The Curious in Bristol. With talks from many free and open source community leaders such as Leslie Hawthorn, VM Brasseur,...
View Articlefreenode #live 2018 is a wrap, thank YOU!
Wow. What an incredible weekend. I want to express my heartfelt thanks to all those who joined us for freenode #live this weekend. Whether you participated in person or tuned into the livestream. We...
View Articlefreenode Next Gen Tor Hidden Service
Over the last few years, the Tor Project has developed a new Tor Hidden Services protocol. It has a few improvements over the previous version, including better cryptography using SHA3 and ed25519....
View Articleircd-seven 1.1.8
Hi all, We're preparing to release version 1.1.8 of ircd-seven and deploy it to the production network over the coming weeks. This release incorporates a number of user-facing changes: Monitor is...
View ArticleMoving webchat to Kiwi IRC
Hi all, after years of providing our good old qwebirc based webchat, we are excited to announce that freenode is moving to a new Kiwi IRC based solution! The change will occur during this weekend (June...
View ArticleMatrix GDPR access request data overshare
Hi all, You may already be aware that in the process of servicing a request for personal information under the GDPR, Matrix.org provided a user with a data dump that mistakenly included events that...
View ArticlePrivate Internet Access and the freenode project
This week we learned the news of the proposed merger between Private Internet Access (LTMI) and Kape Technologies. freenode is not affected by this merger. Kape has indicated that it will honour...
View Article[Scheduled Maintenance] Services database spring cleaning
During the Easter weekend (April 12th to 15th) we will be purging the freenode services database. We periodically prune the database to remove expired accounts, nicknames and channels. Just like...
View ArticleChanges to ChanServ regarding cloaks
freenode offers cloaks to our users, which replace one's hostname or IP address in various places with a project affiliation or lack thereof. Many of you will be aware that cloaks on freenode are not...
View ArticleChanges to realnames of matrix.org bridged users
matrix.org runs a bridge (matrix-appservice-irc) from their Matrix homeserver to freenode that allow Matrix users from any homeserver that federates with matrix.org to join channels on freenode and...
View ArticleChanges to the organisational structure of freenode
We have changed the organisational structure of freenode a bit. The new structure will be slightly more compact, based on 3 main teams and team internal roles. Decisions affecting all of freenode will...
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