author: christel
date: 2003-04-17 04:59:57+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-rehubbing
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] Rehubbing'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] Rehubbing
---
Over the course of the next few days, we'll be rehubbing most of the network, in an effort to improve reliability and possibly save some bandwidth costs. We're not sure how quickly we'll go through the network; if you'd like to keep track of the proceedings, you may want to turn on WALLOPS ("/mode yournick +w" or "/umode +w" on most clients). We'll try to mention it occasionally on global notice, since most users will be affected by the main rotation part of the rehubbing. Apologies for the inconvenience, and thanks for your patience.
author: christel
date: 2003-04-25 21:15:22+00:00
slug: announcement-additional-faq-items
-title: '[Announcement] Additional FAQ items'
+title: [Announcement] Additional FAQ items
---
We've added [two](http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#drones) [FAQs](http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#practicaljoke) about [automated network bans](http://freenode.net/drones.shtml) which you should probably read at your first opportunity. Thanks!
author: christel
date: 2003-06-05 15:44:59+00:00
slug: announcement-polling-for-statistics
-title: '[Announcement] Polling for statistics'
+title: [Announcement] Polling for statistics
---
At about 20:15 UTC, we'll be running a network-wide CTCP VERSION from a staff nick, **client_poll**. You should feel free to change your VERSION string if you want to, but the information helps staff get some idea of channel demographics. Thanks!
author: christel
date: 2003-08-03 21:12:49+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-ircd-upgrade-3
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] IRCD Upgrade'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] IRCD Upgrade
---
Hi, all. Yesterday at about 10pm UTC we posted a global notice to let people know that we were considering an upgrade this weekend to pre-1.0.32 dancer-ircd. We continue to experience clonebot attacks, and the additional features in the new release will be helpful. We directed people to channel **#upgrade** and asked for questions and feedback. After answering questions and taking comments for about an hour, it seemed that the response to the idea of trying the upgrade was pretty favorable.
author: christel
date: 2003-09-01 04:42:32+00:00
slug: release-dancer-ircd-1032
-title: '[Release] dancer-ircd 1.0.32'
+title: [Release] dancer-ircd 1.0.32
---
We're pleased to announce that dancer-ircd [1.0.32](http://source.freenode.net/%7Easuffield/dancer/dancer-ircd/1.0/releases/dancer-ircd-1.0.32.tar.gz) has been released. It's up on the testnet and we'll probably be doing limited production testing at some point during the week. We believe that the cmode +J, +b/+q and +e issues and the services shutdown hub crash issue are resolved by this release.
author: christel
date: 2004-01-31 22:05:38+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-ircd-upgrades
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] IRCD Upgrades'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] IRCD Upgrades
---
Hi all. It's time again for an upgrade. In about 7 hours, at 05:00 UTC, we'll be upgrading the servers to [dancer-ircd v1.0.34](http://source.freenode.net/%7Easuffield/dancer/dancer-ircd/1.0/releases/dancer-ircd-1.0.34.tar.gz). The upgrade process is likely to be fairly disruptive, as we are doing to be doing our best to get it done as quickly as possible. This time, we're hoping to get the IPv6 servers upgraded at the same time, rather than holding that upgrade till later.
author: christel
date: 2004-02-14 14:49:39+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-bug-fixes-expected-network-disturbances
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] Bug fixes, expected network disturbances'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] Bug fixes, expected network disturbances
---
Good afternoon to all. We'll be upgrading the servers again tomorrow morning at 05:00. We'll have more details closer to upgrade time; but the upgrade should resolve the "anonymous topic" problem as well as several other bugs. In addition, we'll be introducing a new channel mode, **+R, moderate unknown users.** The effect of this mode is that users without mode **e** turned on (identified to NickServ) will be moderated and will not automatically have a voice in the channel. Users moderated by +R will receive a message pointing them to NickServ when they attempt to type on channel.
author: christel
date: 2004-03-16 04:22:00+00:00
slug: announcement-feature-addition-freenode-info
-title: '[Announcement] Feature Addition, freenode-info.'
+title: [Announcement] Feature Addition, freenode-info.
---
As you may have noticed, as of this morning we have added a new feature to freenode, called [freenode-info]. For more information, please check this [FAQ](http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#freenode-info). Thanks!
author: christel
date: 2004-04-13 16:34:53+00:00
slug: announcement-policy-changes
-title: '[Announcement] Policy Changes'
+title: [Announcement] Policy Changes
---
Hi all. We've made two changes recently of which you should be aware.
author: christel
date: 2004-07-12 04:30:50+00:00
slug: announcement-fundraising-update-scheduled-maintenance
-title: '[Announcement] Fundraising Update & Scheduled Maintenance'
+title: [Announcement] Fundraising Update & Scheduled Maintenance
---
As you're probably aware, the March-July 2004 fundraiser for [Peer-Directed Projects Center](http://freenode.net/pdpc.shtml) is officially at a close. We've met our fundraising goal, with donations totaling $18,119.42. Thanks to our corporate sponsor [Digium](http://www.digium.com/) and to all of the users of freenode. We appreciate your help!
author: christel
date: 2004-08-12 19:52:26+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-maintenance-and-re-routing
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] Maintenance and Re-routing'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] Maintenance and Re-routing
---
Hi, all. Main rotation servers will be coming down for maintenance and rerouting on two occasions this month:
author: christel
date: 2004-09-05 01:29:13+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-services-downtime
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] Services Downtime'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] Services Downtime
---
Hi all. We're making a minor change in cloaking this morning; we're changing the generic user cloaks (the '.registered' and most of the '.cloaked' cloaks) to '.user'. The requirements for these cloaks will stay the same; we're just simplifying the hostnames a bit.
author: christel
date: 2004-09-08 02:38:24+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-services-database-clear-out
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] Services database clear-out.'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] Services database clear-out.
---
This is just to let you know that we will soon be performing a fairly massive cleanup of the NickServ database, and through it the ChanServ database. We're hoping to clear out a lot of the dead nicks and channels in order to make our next services upgrade a simpler process.
author: christel
date: 2004-10-11 19:09:18+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-upgrading-rotation-servers
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] Upgrading Rotation Servers'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] Upgrading Rotation Servers
---
About 11 hours from now, at 06:00 (1am in Chicago, 8am in Paris, 3pm _[whoops, 3:30pm --ed]_ in Adelaide), we'll be rebooting several main rotation servers to perform upgrades. Much of the network will be affected, but if all goes well, we should be finished within a half hour. We apologize for the inconvenience. Thanks for your understanding, and thank you for using freenode!
author: christel
date: 2004-10-28 19:58:15+00:00
slug: a-couple-of-items-of-possible-interest
-title: 'A couple of items of possible interest. '
+title: A couple of items of possible interest.
---
**First,** if you're involved with bookkeeping or accounting for a small not-for-profit entity, particularly in the FOSS community, please consider maintaining a presence on the new **#accounting** channel on **freenode**. This channel was set up to provide mutual support for small not-for-profit entities in the area of bookkeeping and accounting. Examples: use of UCoA for general ledger and reporting, accrual-based accounting techniques, basic bookkeeping. Please [stop by the **freenode** IRC network](http://freenode.net/using_the_network.shtml), channel **#accounting**.
author: christel
date: 2004-11-03 04:59:56+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-emergency-reboot
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] Emergency reboot'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] Emergency reboot
---
Good morning to you all. The **freenode** network will experience extensive outages between 12 and 12:30pm today (about 7-7.5 hours from now). One of our sponsors needs to reboot a dying core router on an emergency basis, and it's expected to affect service network-wide. The outages should last about five minutes. Staff may need to do routing cleanup mid-afternoon, as well.
author: christel
date: 2004-12-18 05:09:10+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-re-hubbing
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] Re-hubbing'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] Re-hubbing
---
Good morning, all. We'll be doing substantial rehubbing on freenode at 7am, in just under two hours. The work will disrupt network use but should be finished in less than a half hour. We'll also be doing fairly major rehubbing and reboots on main rotation servers around 5am either Sunday or Monday morning. We'll keep you posted.
author: christel
date: 2004-12-29 03:34:19+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-switch-maintenance
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] Switch Maintenance'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] Switch Maintenance
---
Good morning and best wishes during the holiday season. One of our sponsors has scheduled switch maintenance for New Years' Eve morning, 31 December 2004 at 1am UTC. This maintenance could take as little as two minutes or as much as forty-five. There is the possibility of substantial network impact.
author: christel
date: 2005-01-23 23:34:28+00:00
slug: announcement-pdpc-fundraiser
-title: '[Announcement] PDPC Fundraiser'
+title: [Announcement] PDPC Fundraiser
---
Good evening to everyone. Here's hoping you're having an excellent new year. In the next day or so, [Peer-Directed Projects Center](http://freenode.net/pdpc.shtml), the IRS 501(c)(03) parent organization of **freenode**, will begin its fundraising campaign for the fiscal year ending 30 June 2006. We're still working on budget estimates for FYE 2006, and we begin the campaign with about $2,440 in donations over and above those required for the current year.
author: christel
date: 2005-01-27 07:06:05+00:00
slug: announcement-late-notice-of-outages
-title: '[Announcement] Late notice of outages'
+title: [Announcement] Late notice of outages
---
Good morning, all. We've received last minute news that several of our main hub and leaf nodes may experience outages beginning about five hours from now, from noon until 2pm UTC. Service is being interrupted to perform urgent upgrades to infrastructure equipment. We're not certain whether the outages will occur once or twice or be intermittent throughout that period.
author: christel
date: 2005-02-02 13:50:53+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-network-outages
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] Network Outages'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] Network Outages
---
Significant network outages are scheduled for just over 17 hours from now, to update server code. These updates affect main rotation servers and hubs and will significantly affect all users on the network. The outages are scheduled for 7am UTC tomorrow. We'll make them as brief as we can manage.
author: christel
date: 2005-05-20 17:20:29+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-expected-downtime-due-to-software-upgrade
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] Expected downtime due to software upgrade'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] Expected downtime due to software upgrade
---
Due to an unexpected combination of events, freenode will be scheduling major server maintenance for 7am UTC Sunday 22 May 2005 (that's midnight in Los Angeles, 3am in New York City, 9am in Brussels and 5pm in Sydney). Six major servers will be restarted and the entire network will be affected. If all goes well, everything should be over in just about 15 minutes. Thanks for your support and understanding as we continue to upgrade the network.
author: christel
date: 2005-05-20 20:36:16+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-major-server-maintenance
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] Major Server Maintenance'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] Major Server Maintenance
---
To update status, we're still scheduling major server maintenance at 7am UTC Sunday 22 May 2005 (that's midnight in Los Angeles, 3am in New York City, 9am in Brussels and 5pm in Sydney). Seven, not six, major servers will be restarted, and the entire network will be affected. We anticipate that this process may take up to an hour, rather than the 15 minutes previously reported. Thanks again for your support and understanding.
author: christel
date: 2005-06-20 18:00:19+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-server-upgrades
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] Server Upgrades'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] Server Upgrades
---
freenode has tentatively scheduled server upgrades for 6am UTC on Saturday 2 July 2005 (2am in New York City, 8am in Brussels, 4pm in Sydney and 11pm Friday in Los Angeles). At least three major servers will be restarted, and the entire network will be affected. This process may take up to an hour. As always, thank you for your support and understanding.
author: christel
date: 2005-06-27 21:36:08+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-rescheduling-planned-outages
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] Rescheduling planned outages'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] Rescheduling planned outages
---
The upgrades for freenode on Saturday 2 July 2005 at 6am UTC have been rescheduled. One of our sponsors has schedule a couple of major power outages, and the effect on us will be pretty major, so we'll do the work at that time. So, the new schedule has major outages planned which are likely to affect our service for one hour each at 9am UTC (2am Los Angeles, 11am Brussels and 6pm Sydney) on: Wednesday, 29 June 2005
Sunday, 3 July 2005
author: christel
date: 2005-06-28 23:55:08+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-changes-to-the-scheduled-downtime
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] Changes to the scheduled downtime'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] Changes to the scheduled downtime
---
There's a slight change in the outage schedule. The outages are now planned to last up to an hour and a half, beginning at 8:30am UTC (1:30am Los Angeles, 10:30am Brussels and 5:30pm Sydney) on: Wednesday, 29 June 2005
Sunday, 3 July 2005
author: christel
date: 2005-08-07 07:11:46+00:00
slug: announcement-introducing-stats-p
-title: '[Announcement] Introducing /stats p'
+title: [Announcement] Introducing /stats p
---
Late-scheduled sponsor power outages between 9am and 10am UTC on Monday, 8 August 2005 (a bit over a day from now) will impact network use for most of our users. We'll take the opportunity at that time to do software updates on several of our servers, and we'll also schedule a test upgrade to Hyperion 1.0. Hyperion is a fork of our current dancer-ircd 1.0 ircd server software.
author: christel
date: 2005-08-29 12:52:45+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-ircd-upgrade-2
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] IRCD upgrade.'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] IRCD upgrade.
---
By now you've noticed that the **freenode** network was upgraded late this morning to hyperion-ircd release 1.0.1. Due to overwhelming problems with floodbots during the last few days, we've added an experimental feature to hyperion ircd and we'll be implementing it this afternoon.
author: christel
date: 2005-08-30 20:03:10+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-services-upgrade
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] Services Upgrade'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] Services Upgrade
---
Yesterday around noon, we ran into such serious problems with hyperion-ircd 1.0.1 that it became necessary to back out the NOIDPRIVMSG feature, which blocks unregistered users from sending private messages. But users responding to requests for feedback on the feature, via global notice and news item, commented very positively, with about 60% favoring the permanent adoption of the feature, and 83% favoring its use in some temporary or permanent form.
author: christel
date: 2005-09-10 10:27:54+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-memory-upgrade
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] Memory Upgrade'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] Memory Upgrade
---
We'll be restarting a main rotation server on either Monday or Tuesday at 5:00am, in order to perform a memory upgrade. The server has been removed from rotation and, so far, no more than about 2,000 users should be affected. Thanks in advance for your patience and understanding.
author: christel
date: 2005-12-16 18:11:40+00:00
slug: afternoon-all
-title: '[Announcement] DNS change'
+title: [Announcement] DNS change
---
freenode is currently experiencing a large-scale nuisancebot infestation. We've temporarily removed the **irc.freenode.net** rotation, but you can find us on [chat.freenode.net](irc://chat.freenode.net/). If you're a client developer or you run an IRC network list site, please do not list this new hostname without first emailing **staff at freenode dot net** to make sure it's okay to do so. Apologies for the inconvenience, and thank you for using the network!
author: christel
date: 2005-12-17 12:18:55+00:00
slug: good-afternoon-everyone
-title: '[Announcement] Temporary DNS Change'
+title: [Announcement] Temporary DNS Change
---
For the last 18 hours, freenode experienced a large-scale nuisancebot infestation. We temporarily removed the [irc.freenode.net](irc://irc.freenode.net) rotation and replaced it with [chat.freenode.net](irc://chat.freenode.net/), in order to try to stem the tide of spambots hitting the network. In the process of doing so, we discovered a new methodology for analyzing the spambot net and produced a patched server version to mitigate the effects of the infestation. As of a few minutes ago, all freenode servers have been upgraded to this new code.
author: christel
date: 2005-12-22 01:10:59+00:00
slug: good-morning-all-2
-title: '[Announcement] Network problems'
+title: [Announcement] Network problems
---
Yesterday evening, freenode had network problems related to the recent spambot infestation. Despite the recent server patch, the underlying infestation continues and has created some temporary resource issues. Several servers restarts ensued and network staff rearranged the main server rotation to compensate for the problem.
author: christel
date: 2006-02-20 05:38:01+00:00
slug: good-morning-all
-title: '[Announcement] Group registration and fundraising.'
+title: [Announcement] Group registration and fundraising.
category: community
category: development
category: freenode
author: christel
date: 2006-05-02 21:03:26+00:00
slug: good-evening-everyone
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] European Rehubbing'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] European Rehubbing
category: freenode
category: infrastructure
category: technical
author: christel
date: 2006-09-16 10:47:55+00:00
slug: announcement-rob-levin-has-passed-away
-title: '[Announcement] Rob Levin has passed away'
+title: [Announcement] Rob Levin has passed away
category: community
category: different
category: freenode
author: christel
date: 2006-11-02 16:46:39+00:00
slug: downtime-unexpected-downtime
-title: '[Downtime] Unexpected downtime.'
+title: [Downtime] Unexpected downtime.
category: infrastructure
category: technical
---
author: christel
date: 2006-11-11 08:00:49+00:00
slug: introducing-the-pdpc-board
-title: '[Announcement] Introducing the PDPC board'
+title: [Announcement] Introducing the PDPC board
category: pdpc
---
It is with great pleasure that I can finally introduce the new board of directors for PDPC, the not-for-profit entity that runs freenode.
author: christel
date: 2006-12-22 00:00:53+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-ircd-upgrade
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] IRCD upgrade.'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] IRCD upgrade.
category: infrastructure
category: technical
---
author: Xyrael
date: 2007-04-19 13:07:23+00:00
slug: getting-voice-in-freenode-social
-title: 'Getting voice in #freenode-social'
+title: Getting voice in #freenode-social
category: community
category: freenode
---
author: SportChick
date: 2007-05-02 17:24:56+00:00
slug: silence-is-golden-handling-trolls-and-spammers
-title: 'Silence is Golden: Handling trolls and spammers'
+title: Silence is Golden: Handling trolls and spammers
category: community
category: freenode
category: philosophy
author: christel
date: 2007-05-15 03:49:56+00:00
slug: all-roads-lead-to-defocus
-title: 'All roads lead to #defocus'
+title: All roads lead to #defocus
category: community
category: freenode
category: philosophy
author: Xyrael
date: 2007-07-11 17:58:11+00:00
slug: freenode-defocus-an-evaluation
-title: '#freenode & #defocus: an evaluation'
+title: #freenode & #defocus: an evaluation
category: community
category: freenode
category: social
author: skenmy
date: 2008-05-31 17:56:35+00:00
slug: new-services-nicknames-and-accounts
-title: 'New Services: Nicknames and Accounts'
+title: New Services: Nicknames and Accounts
category: freenode
category: technical
---
author: christel
date: 2008-07-02 18:58:46+00:00
slug: lugradio-live-the-grand-finale
-title: 'Lugradio Live: The grand finale'
+title: Lugradio Live: The grand finale
category: community
category: projects
category: social
author: skenmy
date: 2008-08-28 11:00:51+00:00
slug: freenode-autovoice-trial
-title: '#freenode: Autovoice Trial'
+title: #freenode: Autovoice Trial
category: community
category: freenode
---
author: njan
date: 2008-09-14 19:17:17+00:00
slug: change-in-defocus-policy-and-what-do-you-think
-title: 'Change in #defocus policy - and what do you think?'
+title: Change in #defocus policy - and what do you think?
category: community
category: freenode
category: philosophy
author: christel
date: 2008-11-02 19:01:07+00:00
slug: maintenance-downtime-warning-lem-orwell
-title: '[Maintenance] Downtime warning -- lem, orwell'
+title: [Maintenance] Downtime warning -- lem, orwell
category: community
category: freenode
category: infrastructure
author: SportChick
date: 2009-01-30 19:41:25+00:00
slug: the-beauty-of-freenode
-title: 'The Beauty of #freenode'
+title: The Beauty of #freenode
---
#freenode channel, as it currently exists, is a veritable work of art - people who come to the channel are nearly always provided help or referred somewhere for the answer. The really beautiful thing about #freenode, though, is that at least 50% of the help provided comes from network users (rather than freenode staff).
author: JonathanD
date: 2009-03-30 17:09:19+00:00
slug: free-as-in-node-episode-2-release
-title: 'free-as-in-node: Episode 2 release'
+title: free-as-in-node: Episode 2 release
---
We're happy to announce we've just released our second episode of the new freenode podcast, free-as-in-node! In this episode, we talk about Gary's recent offenses, geeknics and k-lining park-goers. We also meet with Dave "Daviey" Walker from Ubuntu to discuss the Ubuntu COC and Ubuntu Locos during this episodes Pimp my project. We continue looking at the recent Microsoft and TomTom legal actions and share our views on them.
author: JonathanD
date: 2009-04-01 01:07:55+00:00
slug: pdpc-yahoo-acquisition
-title: 'PDPC Yahoo acquisition '
+title: PDPC Yahoo acquisition
category: different
---
It is with great fanfare that we announce the Yahoo acquisition of the PDPC, and by extension, freenode. After much deliberation, we have decided to accept Yahoo's offer to purchase the freenode irc network and associated resources for the amount of approximately £2,700,000.00 in yahoo shares. At present it is expected that all current network staff will remain in place while certain yahoo employees will be added to the mix.
author: christel
date: 2009-04-14 09:52:41+00:00
slug: wikipedia-licensing-change
-title: 'Wikipedia licensing change? '
+title: Wikipedia licensing change?
---
**Wikipedia to change license to Creative Commons BY-SA?** -- From [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13967](http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13967)
author: christel
date: 2009-06-09 09:43:51+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-services-database-clear-out-2
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] Services database clear-out.'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] Services database clear-out.
category: infrastructure
category: technical
---
author: christel
date: 2009-06-17 09:39:25+00:00
slug: we-want-you
-title: 'We want YOU! '
+title: We want YOU!
category: community
category: different
category: freenode
author: Martinp23
date: 2010-01-29 18:55:02+00:00
slug: connecting-to-freenode-using-tor-sasl
-title: 'Connecting to freenode using Tor: SASL'
+title: Connecting to freenode using Tor: SASL
category: development
category: freenode
category: infrastructure
author: RichiH
date: 2011-02-23 17:46:04+00:00
slug: port-6697-irc-via-tlsssl
-title: 'Default port for IRC via TLS/SSL (hint: it''s 6697)'
+title: Default port for IRC via TLS/SSL (hint: it''s 6697)
---
As some of you might be aware, there has been a push to [standardize](http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hartmann-default-port-for-irc-via-tls-ssl) on a common port for IRC via SSL/TLS. Same as you can reasonably expect any public ircd for plain text connections to listen on port 6667, you should be able to expect any public ircd for IRC via SSL/TLS to listen on port 6697.
author: RichiH
date: 2011-04-01 00:01:08+00:00
slug: important-service-announcement-regarding-defocus
-title: 'Important service announcement regarding #defocus'
+title: Important service announcement regarding #defocus
---
As many of you are aware, [back in 2008](news/2008-09-14-change-in-defocus-policy-and-what-do-you-think) we changed our policy in #defocus and the method in which the channel works to require users have voice to speak. For the past few years we've been using a combination of manual action, scripts and bots to voice users as needed to control when and how and when they are voiced.
author: JonathanD
date: 2011-07-14 11:36:40+00:00
slug: fosscon-2011-philadelphia-pennsylvania-23rd-july-2011
-title: 'Fosscon 2011: Philadelphia Pennsylvania, 23rd July, 2011.'
+title: Fosscon 2011: Philadelphia Pennsylvania, 23rd July, 2011.
---
July 23, 2011 - (All day)
author: christel
date: 2011-08-31 08:46:35+00:00
slug: fixing-defocus
-title: 'Fixing #defocus'
+title: Fixing #defocus
---
We want #defocus, the network social channel, to be a welcoming place for relaxed, easy conversation. Of late, we're seeing that staff are acting in a policing role more than we are able to take an active part in the flow of the channel. This is something of a circle, as the more we are seen to be police, the harder it is for us to achieve what we want with the channel.
author: mrmist
date: 2011-12-30 11:50:37+00:00
slug: focus-on-defocus
-title: 'Focus on #defocus'
+title: Focus on #defocus
---
We've been working on improving the environment in #defocus for a while now. We think we're on the right track with opening up channel moderation to more than @freenode/staff/ but we need your help to get to where we want to be.
author: Martinp23
date: 2012-01-29 22:14:36+00:00
slug: defocuss-visit-to-the-opticians-new-guidelines
-title: 'Defocus''s visit to the opticians: new guidelines'
+title: Defocus''s visit to the opticians: new guidelines
---
A couple of months ago, mrmist posted about the #defocus-focus channel, which was looking to improve the atmosphere in #defocus.
author: Pricey
date: 2013-08-09 08:50:14+00:00
slug: check-your-nickserv-email
-title: 'Reminder: Keep your NickServ email up to date.'
+title: Reminder: Keep your NickServ email up to date.
---
If you've registered with NickServ within the last few years then you'll have used an email address and we'll have sent you a mail to verify it. That will probably be the last time you heard from us...
author: Pricey
date: 2014-06-18 15:54:08+00:00
slug: new-extban-j
-title: 'New extban: $j'
+title: New extban: $j
category: freenode
category: infrastructure
category: technical
author: Pricey
date: 2014-10-15 21:27:44+00:00
slug: server-issues-update
-title: 'Server Issues: Update'
+title: Server Issues: Update
---
Following up on our [previous blog post](http://blog.freenode.net/2014/09/server-issues-2/), we have continued to investigate the compromise of freenode infrastructure, aided by our sponsors in addition to experts in the field.
projects / irc / freenode / web-7.0.git / commitdiff
