Taking IRC Further - freenode

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Style Pass

2021-06-10 04:30:03

IRC was the beginning for many of us, and over the past few weeks, we've heard many great coming of age stories from so many of you. Many of us, including me, share the same.

This is why it was surprising to find that IRC was in the same state that it was in the early 2000s. Today, I'm honored to announce that freenode has begun modernizing IRC.

Stay connected to IRC, without missing a beat. freenode now offers a free IRC bouncer to anyone with a registered nickname through NickServ.

Just point your client to bnc.freenode.net and port 6697 with SSL enabled. Next, enter your NickServ username and password in the IRC connection password field. For example, if your nickname is Fuschia and your password is password, then you would use Fuschia:password in the IRC connection password field.

We’re proud to announce that we’ve launched an IRC-first web link aggregator, BBS. You can join now, post links and comment by joining #freenode-bbs, #freenode-bbs-discussion and #freenode-chit. Chit is our web commenting platform controlled via an IRC bot.