List of projects and channels that have left or stayed on Freenode

projects-leaving-freenode.md

Note: due to volume, this has been moved to https://github.com/siraben/freenode-exodus

Projects and channels that have left Freenode

This is a (necessarily incomplete) list of projects and channels that have decided to permanently move out of Freenode to https://libera.chat (unless stated otherwise). Please reach out below or on IRC if there's additions or corrections.

Sources are mostly comments I've seen on HN, various IRC channels and web searches.

• ADIIRC
• Alpine (to oftc)
• Anbox
• Ansible
• Apertium (to OFTC)
• Arcan Chat
• Arch Linux
• Ardour
• Arduino
• Asahi Linux
• Asterisk
• Bastillebsd
• Bedrock Linux
• Bitcoin Core
• Bluespec Compiler
• BorgBackup
• bspwm
• Btrbk
• BTRFS
• Buildroot (to OFTC)
• BZFlag
• Calamares
• Calyxos
• #cat-v (to OFTC)
• CentOS
• Chicken
• chimper
• Clojure
• ConnectBot
• Convos
• Coq
• Coreboot
• CoreRAD
• Couchdb
• Cozy
• Crosstool-NG
• Curl
• D-Lang
• dav1d
• Debian
• Devuan
• Django
• EasyRPG
• Elixir
• Emacs
• Emacs User Group Berlin
• #erc
• ET: Legacy
• exult
• Fantasya
• Fedora
• Fedora Zhongwen User Group
• Fennel
• Ffmpeg
• FileWiki
• Fink Project
• Fosdem
• Fosshost
• FOSSHOST
• FreeBSD
• FreedroidRPG
• FreeIPA
• FSFE
• FVWM-crystal
• fvwm3
• Gamingonlinux
• GDB
• GDC
• Gentoo
• GHC
• Git
• GNU Radio
• Gobolinux
• gPodder
• GPUSPH
• Grafana
• GrapheneOS
• Guile
• Guix
• HackSoc
• HardenedBSD
• Hardfought
• Haskell
• Haveno
• helloSystem
• herbstluftwm
• Hplusroadmap
• Huggle 3
• Illumos
• Indian Linux User's Group - Chennai
• IndieWeb
• infer
• invidious (moved to Matrix)
• ioquake3
• Ircpuzzles
• IRCv3 WG
• Irssi
• Jellyfin
• Jenkins
• KDE
• KiCad
• killer
• kpatch
• Kvazaar
• Leiningen
• libguestfs
• libopencm3
• Libreelec
• #lisp
• LiteX
• Lobsters
• Lokke: Clojure for Guile
• London Hackspace
• LXC
• MacPorts
• mal
• Metabrainz
• mgmtconfig
• Minecraft Overviewer
• Minetest
• Miraheze
• Monero
• MorphOS
• MUGS (Multi-User Gaming Services)
• MusicPlayerDaemon
• Musl
• Mutt
• Mysql
• naemon
• Neomutt
• NetBSD
• Nethack
• NewPipe
• Newsboat
• NewtonScript
• NixOS (to Matrix)
• Nonguix
• Open Source Club at The Ohio State University
• OpenIKED
• OpenLab Augsburg
• OpenLDAP
• OpenMPTL
• openscad
• openvswitch
• OpenWRT (to OFTC)
• OpenZFS
• Org mode
• OSUOSL
• Packetframe
• Packit
• Pepper & Carrot
• Perl
• Pico lisp
• pimutils
• Pioneer Space Sim
• Podman
• Porteus
• Postgres
• Priyom
• Prometheus
• Pypy
• Python
• QT
• quick-lint-js
• Qutebrowser
• Radeon and #ROCm (to OFTC)
• Raku
• Reprap
• Rizin
• Rockbox
• Rocm (to oftc)
• Rsync
• RTL-SDR
• Rtlsdr
• Salix-OS
• #scheme
• ScummVM
• Seattle GNU/Linux Conference
• Selenium
• serious-bg
• Sheffgeeks
• Slackware
• Solanum
• Solus
• Sopel
• Sourcehut
• Sway
• Sysadmin
• System Security Services Daemon
• Systemd
• Tahoe-LAFS
• Team Fortress Wiki
• The Lounge
• The Mana World
• The Powder Toy
• The Secret Chronicles of Dr. M.
• The TenDRA Project
• Tübix
• Ubuntu
• Vegastrike
• VICE
• Vim
• Visidata
• Voidlinux
• WA7VC
• wayvnc
• Weechat
• Wesnoth
• Wikimedia
• Xapian
• Xen
• Xmonad
• xNetHack
• Xubuntu
• Yancy
• Zapp
• zaproxy
• Zig
• ZNC
• Zsh

Projects and channels that have stayed on Freenode

More difficult to find are projects that have stayed, please let me know.

• GnuPG
• #freenode (duh)

Citation link for Python: https://www.python.org/community/irc/

Rizin has also moved to Libera: https://rizin.re/community/

Asahi Linux also followed the movement: Tweet

GnuPG remains on Freenode https://gnupg.org/documentation/mailing-lists.html
In addition their Libera channel topic requests that users try Freenode first.

https://github.com/search?q=libera.chat&type=commits could help

Transcendence (transcendence-game.com) left to Libera and Botters (IRC Bot Dev group) have also left, keeping only general use channels there now.

Rust Embedded and Rust Retro have moved their matrix bridges from FreeNode to Libera. Well they are trying to ... there are some issues.

managarm: managarm/managarm#314

apache/ASF (#httpd and the #apache-* channels), exim and postfix seem to've moved as well

https://docs.smartos.org/mailing-lists-and-irc/#irc

We can be found in the following channels on irc.libera.chat:

#smartos: The Official SmartOS/Triton Channel (Channel Logs)
#manta: The Official Manta Channel (Channel Logs)
#illumos: For discussion of the Illumos project and its distributions (Channel Logs)
#joyent: People often find us here, but #smartos is preferred.

#freenode stayed on Freenode ;-).

A few more, from commit logs:
Asuswrt
bluespec
borgbackup
buildroot
bzflag
gpusph
fzug
jenkins
m36
Minecraft devs
openbsd
openscad

Emfcamp moved about 30 channels https://www.emfcamp.org/about/contact (numerical data from https://twitter.com/emfcamp/status/1398349227546324997 )

#cat-v has moved to irc.oftc.net

#go-nuts has also moved to Libera.

Update for May 30th, 2021
RAW format: http://dpaste.com/H2S66YE7T

The TenDRA Project
bspwm
Nethack
Pepper & Carrot
Calamares
KDE is in the process of moving
pimutils
Tübix
BorgBackup
invidious (moved to Matrix)
Anbox
libopencm3
London Hackspace
quick-lint-js
openscad
fvwm3
OSUOSL
ConnectBot
Emacs User Group Berlin
chimper
LiteX
Jellyfin
MUGS (Multi-User Gaming Services)
Podman
BZFlag
Buildroot (to OFTC)
Fedora Zhongwen User Group
ET: Legacy
Illumos
GPUSPH
NetBSD
serious-bg
Jenkins
HackSoc
Bluespec Compiler
FOSSHOST
Priyom
Lokke: Clojure for Guile
Vegastrike
xmonad
zaproxy
Kvazaar
wayvnc
exult
Sopel
Fink Project
ConnectBot
FileWiki
OpenMPTL
Btrbk
Solanum
ScummVM
Fantasya
Git
GDC
Seattle GNU/Linux Conference
NewtonScript
openvswitch
mal
FreeIPA
Packit
CoreRAD
libguestfs
Pioneer Space Sim
Pypy is moving
naemon
OpenLab Augsburg
bspwm
dav1d
gPodder
NewPipe
Cozy
mgmtconfig
killer
Open Source Club at The Ohio State University
Crosstool-NG
WA7VC
OpenZFS
kpatch
herbstluftwm
VICE
The Secret Chronicles of Dr. M.
helloSystem
OpenIKED
EasyRPG
MusicPlayerDaemon
Huggle 3
IndieWeb
FVWM-crystal
Bedrock Linux
System Security Services Daemon
Anbox
neomutt
Rizin
Tahoe-LAFS
Salix-OS
infer
Newsboat
Sheffgeeks
Yancy
Zapp
xNetHack
GNU Radio

Added and sorted, thank you!

whipper and beets: https://twitter.com/Freso/status/1398364969448755210 :)

Edit: Also, Arch Linux is written "Arch Linux" and MetaBrainz is written "MetaBrainz".

s6 has moved to OFTC.

Message announcing the Scheme move, for reference. https://srfi-email.schemers.org/srfi-discuss/msg/16740382/

• ##proxmox moved main channel to libera, but with a bridge between channels.
• #proxmark3 moved to libera.

X.Org, FreeDesktop, and Meson have all moved to OFTC.

Edit: Meson is OFTC+Matrix: https://twitter.com/mesonbuild/status/1397531239033278465

Eggdrop has moved to libera.

PyPy has now moved officially and dropped freenode: https://www.pypy.org/posts/2021/05/pypy-irc-moves-to-libera-chat.html

The C++ community channels, as well as #osdev, have also moved.

The Python link leads to the Rockbox site.

Thank you all, I will go through the gist comments to see what I have missed, but because of the sheer volume of suggestions I am creating a repo at https://github.com/siraben/freenode-exodus

Why does a few ops deciding to take their ball and move to another network mean that a "channel has moved"? The very premise is nonsense and absurd. Unless it's a trademarked/commercial branded channel, every channel remains on freenode and can adopt new ops to manage the community that decides to remain. This is all a bunch of posturing and virtue signaling that does nothing except damage the communities various parties purport to be supporting. Really sad that people are so interested in being divisive rather than actually work together.

#forth - for which I am an op - remains on freenode where it has grown from a dead channel for about a decade to something extremely valuable to the Forth community in the last few years. We have also has added a bridge to the new network as we care about Forth and not political/internal squabbles between operators and their employees. So long as federation with other networks appears beneficial to the Forther community we will continue to do so and are open to other networks as well.

If people were more focused on their communities than victimhood and divisiveness we wouldn't have this mess in the first place. Perhaps people should step back and really consider the real outcome potential of their actions and words before continuing this nonsense.

Reddit's /r/sysadmin IRC channel also moved to Libera.

Why does a few ops deciding to take their ball and move to another network mean that a "channel has moved"? The very premise is nonsense and absurd. Unless it's a trademarked/commercial branded channel, every channel remains on freenode and can adopt new ops to manage the community that decides to remain. This is all a bunch of posturing and virtue signaling that does nothing except damage the communities various parties purport to be supporting. Really sad that people are so interested in being divisive rather than actually work together.

Because taking someone else's channel is not only an asshole move but also misleading to newcomers. Think about it.

Sincerely a User