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Statement by freenode because of the block http://blog.freenode.net/2009/06/new-freenode-webchat-and-why-to-use-it/ http://blog.freenode.net/2009/06/new-freenod
by zitterbewegung 17y ago
Statement by freenode because of the block
http://blog.freenode.net/2009/06/new-freenode-webchat-and-why-to-use-it/ http://blog.freenode.net/2009/06/new-freenode-webchat-and-wh...
Analysis:
Seems like mibbit was being abused and it was difficult for freenode to combat the abuse. Freenode eventually just got fed up with all the time required to fix the problem. It was too easy to get on mibbit to evade a ban to screw with a channel.
- pygy 17y agoThey also claim that the communication and collaboration with Mibbit wasn't easy. Direct link to their new web IRC client: http://webchat.freenode.net/ http://webchat.freenode.net/
- sho 17y agoWow, that client is great! A lovely, clean design, written in Python, GPL2. Damn, so many nice things written in Python .. guess it's time to learn it : /
- jodrellblank 17y agogreat! "Disconnected from server: Connection to IRC server lost: Buffer overflow" Mibbit has never done that to me...
- fishking 17y agoseems to be a setting: https://bitbucket.org/slug/qwebirc/src/tip/config.py.example#cl-131 https://bitbucket.org/slug/qwebirc/src/tip/config.py.example...