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Libera.chat is actually an awful name, but I still embrace the change and have already bid Freenode a permanent farewell.

• estaseuropano 5y ago
  That is a subjective opinion, not objective fact. I think it rolls nicely.
  • fairity 5y ago
    It is both harder to spell and pronounce than freenode, and objectively worse, by those measures.
    • outworlder 5y ago
      Is it hard to pronounce by whom? English speakers? I promise you any speaker of a latin-derived language will have no problems whatsoever.
      • macintux 5y ago
        “Freenode” has only 1 possible pronunciation (and corresponding spelling) in English. “Libera” has 3 or 4 conceivable pronunciations and is harder to guarantee correctness when spoken. Fortunately I doubt IRC servers need to be communicated vocally all that often.
        • GekkePrutser 5y ago
          It's really tough to find an unencumbered name these days. Even made-up names like 'eelo' (Android distro) got in trouble because a tiny human resources company in the Netherlands was using the name 'eelloo'. Not even the same name, totally different business type but still they lost. Trademarks are applied ridiculously wide now and because of that all the good names are gone.
          • cout 5y ago
            I never understood what was wrong with the original "open projects network".
            • ilaksh 5y ago
              That's still the best name.
• flyinghamster 5y ago
  More to the point, .chat is one of those latecomer TLDs that is thoroughly abused by spammers. If they send email and they want it delivered, they're going to have a great time with that, unless they have a .net or something they can use.
  • Arnavion 5y ago
    >If they send email and they want it delivered, they're going to have a great time with that, Your sass is unnecessary. Their nickserv registration email was delivered to gmail just fine.
    • thaumaturgy 5y ago
      Email and Gmail are not perfectly congruent. An unsettling number of people now seem to be under the impression that Gmail "is" email, in the sense that all email is Gmail and Gmail is all email. Even if Gmail is currently delivering the messages (for now...), other service providers have to manage spam in their own way, and TLDs are sometimes a really strong signal for message reputation. For example, 99% of email traffic from .info addresses is spam, and the other 1% is mostly spam too.
      • Arnavion 5y ago
        I don't confuse email with gmail, thank you very much. I gave gmail as an example specifically because a) that's what I used, and b) gmail like all other big providers is anal about accepting email and quick on the trigger-finger about marking it as spam even when it does.
      • tablespoon 5y ago
        > Email and Gmail are not perfectly congruent. An unsettling number of people now seem to be under the impression that Gmail "is" email, in the sense that all email is Gmail and Gmail is all email. Even major services. I tried to create an Esty account the other day, and it rejected all addresses from my Fastmail-managed personal domains, and would only take a gmail address. Luckly it turns out you don't need an account to order, and I was able to use my custom domain for an unregistered checkout.
• geppetto 5y ago
  Well "libera" means free in Italian so it makes sense to me. There are also other projects with sound the same such as libre (spanish I guess) office. I like it. But I'm biased being from Italy.
• kgwxd 5y ago
  It really is an awful name. I'm not even sure how to pronounce it and its very forgettable.