Freenode IRC

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 15, 2021, at 13:19, Joshua Root wrote:

> Given Freenode's announcement that they are switching to new software and not carrying over the existing services database with all the channel and nick registrations, this is a good time to complete our exit. Please remove the bridging to the Freenode channel.

I think it would be good to write a news post about this on the web site and send it to macports-announce too. Other projects that moved made such announcements, such as:

https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-and-gnu-move-official-irc-channels-to-libera-chat-network

https://www.gentoo.org/news/2021/05/23/Moving-to-Libera.html