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Awesome. Are any networks running ergo in production? My experience has been that most IRCops are very much of the change-averse nature.
by na85 5y ago
Awesome. Are any networks running ergo in production?
My experience has been that most IRCops are very much of the change-averse nature.
- progval 5y agoThere is the flagship ergo.chat network, and a bunch of small networks. A total of 118 networks according to https://www.ircstats.org/servers https://www.ircstats.org/servers (based on scanning the IPv4 address space on ports 6667 and 6697. Note that, despite being a census of servers, Ergo can't federated, so 1 server = 1 network for Ergo) > My experience has been that most IRCops are very much of the change-averse nature. True. Ergo in particular changes the IRC paradigm, so some old-timers don't like it very much. As far as I know, Ergo deployments are all brand-new networks
- tw04 5y ago> Ergo can't federated, so 1 server = 1 network for Ergo) I guess I qualify as an old timer even though I’m not that old then. If you can’t federate servers I don’t think it should be called IRC. It might be using the same protocol, but it’s something else.
- progval 5y agoWhy? It doesn't make any difference for users. These days, IRC federation is only used to scale horizontally, and sadly, IRC networks doesn't need to scale over 100k concurrent users anymore.
- tw04 5y agoPart of what made irc, irc is that it was decentralized. A single server breaks the entire premise of IRC. EFNet literally could not exist if it weren’t decentralized.