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Title: RFC: new IRC channel #bitcoin Post by: jgarzik on December 08, 2010, 07:54:11 PM The current IRC channel #bitcoin-dev on freenode is increasingly becoming a user support channel.
I propose that we recommend (and list on http://www.bitcoin.org/contact ) using #bitcoin for everything not related to development and highly technical issues. #bitcoin on freenode is largely dead, and appears quite usable for new purposes. a few (older? modified?) clients use #bitcoin for IRC seeding, but these clients get less frequent over time. The "gribble" bot recommends using #bitcoin-discussion, but using #bitcoin seems simpler and more direct (and less to type). Title: Re: RFC: new IRC channel #bitcoin Post by: genjix on December 08, 2010, 07:56:07 PM logical. yes.
Title: Re: RFC: new IRC channel #bitcoin Post by: nanotube on December 08, 2010, 09:00:11 PM problem is, #bitcoin is orphaned. we have no ops there, and will not for the foreseeable future. the first time the channel is attacked by trolls/spambots/etc, you will suddenly realize that it's good to have ops. :)
that's the reason we currently recommend #bitcoin-discussion, because we have control of that channel. Title: Re: RFC: new IRC channel #bitcoin Post by: sirius on December 08, 2010, 09:02:27 PM Who owns #bitcoin-talk?
Title: Re: RFC: new IRC channel #bitcoin Post by: jgarzik on December 08, 2010, 09:04:21 PM Who owns #bitcoin-talk? Looks free and available, to me. Title: Re: RFC: new IRC channel #bitcoin Post by: nanotube on December 08, 2010, 09:24:48 PM I posted a poll on channel name selection on the forum:
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2159.0 Title: Re: RFC: new IRC channel #bitcoin Post by: awwright on December 08, 2010, 09:47:52 PM #bitcoin currently isn't registered, why not simply register it? If the Bitcoin project is registered as a project with Freenode (As it should be) it would get control over the entire #bitcoin namespace (#bitcoin-*).
Title: Re: RFC: new IRC channel #bitcoin Post by: jgarzik on December 08, 2010, 09:49:02 PM #bitcoin currently isn't registered, why not simply register it? If the Bitcoin project is registered as a project with Freenode (As it should be) it would get control over the entire #bitcoin namespace (#bitcoin-*). See what nanotube said, earlier in this thread. Title: Re: RFC: new IRC channel #bitcoin Post by: awwright on December 08, 2010, 11:33:26 PM See what nanotube said, earlier in this thread. What about it? |