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Addressing Burnout
Update: This was our April 1st 2025 prank. It was a reminder that burnout is real, especially in volunteer efforts, and that it has no easy answers. This is also a protest about the social burden created by LLMs - often trained using questionable ethics - including on the quality of support resources. And sometimes with the ultimate goal of replacing real human interactions that make communities like ours so special. <3
A belated state of the network
Happy 2025 everyone!
Establishing an etiquette for LLM use on Libera.Chat
Greetings fellow humans!
Retiring CertFP Expiration Verification
Here is some good news for folks who use CertFP to log in to
NickServ: we have rolled out a change that means SaslServ will no longer
reject expired certificates when used for identifying to accounts.
PSA: Critical vulnerability in ZNC's modtcl
TL;DR - If you are using a version of modtcl that is NOT from ZNC 1.9.1 (distribution versions may differ) or newer, update or unload it immediately.
Three!
Hello everyone!
Account Auto-Cloaking
Hello Libera.Chat users!
New And Upcoming Features
by el, glguy, moonmoon, She, spb
Hello Libera.Chat users,
Official Matrix bridge farewell
Hello, I am the bearer of unfortunate news.
Matrix Bridge Temporary Shutdown, a Retrospective
Update: We no longer have an official Matrix bridge. Please see our FAQ about Matrix for more information about using Matrix on Libera.Chat.
Temporarily disabling the Matrix Bridge
Update: We no longer have an official Matrix bridge. Please see our FAQ about Matrix for more information about using Matrix on Libera.Chat.
Delays in Disabling Matrix Portalling
Update: We no longer have an official Matrix bridge. Please see our FAQ about Matrix for more information about using Matrix on Libera.Chat.
Disabling Matrix Portalling
Update: We no longer have an official Matrix bridge. Please see our FAQ about Matrix for more information about using Matrix on Libera.Chat.
Updates on the matrix<>IRC bridge
Update: We no longer have an official Matrix bridge. Please see our FAQ about Matrix for more information about using Matrix on Libera.Chat.
Happy 2nd Birthday, Libera Chat!
Hello everyone, today we celebrate the second anniversary of Libera.Chat going public!
Changing Default For Login Failure Notices
Hello Libera.Chat users,
Libera.Chat and FreeWear.org partnership for merchandise
Hello Libera Chat users,
Login Failure Notice Opt-Out
Hello everyone,
New And Upcoming Features
Hello Libera Chat users,
Happy Birthday, Libera Chat!
Hello everyone, today we celebrate the anniversary of Libera.Chat going public!
2021 Libera end of year review
Hello everyone!
Let's Encrypt root CA expiry
Hello,
Lengthening Nickname Expiry
Hello Libera Chat users,
Just over 100 days of Libera Chat
Hello everyone!
One month of Libera Chat
Whew - what a month (and a couple of days). Few of us expected earlier in the year to have to create a new IRC network, from scratch, in a few days!
One week of Libera Chat
Hello, Libera Chat users!
Welcome to Libera Chat
We’re excited to announce the launch of Libera.Chat, and welcome you to a next-generation IRC network for free and open source software projects and similarly-spirited collaborative endeavours.