[Sugar-devel] freenode has moved to Kiwi IRC, was Re: Unable to connect to IRC

[D. Joe]

In visiting the Freenode webchat link yesterday, I noticed they had changed their webchat software stack to Kiwi IRC a little more than a month ago.

Seeing this thread on review, I thought it might be relevant to mention.

The change is briefly discussed in this blog post:

https://freenode.net/news/moving-to-kiwiirc

One difference I did notice, and that might be relevant to the experiences mentioned below, is that previously (and as I'm given to understand) connections originating through the Freenode QwebIRC servers were whitelisted in some way such that didn't need to be authenticated to channels with certain flags set as anti-spam measures. 

When I tried to join such a channel yesterday, though, I found my connection did not have voice (eg, was joined to the channel, but in a read-only way).



On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 07:11:21AM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> Some networks block webchat.freenode.net by following purchased
> filtering policies that try to protect people from difficult or
> threatening information.  A 502 could be the result.  Try a different
> network.
> 
> I've tested https://webchat.freenode.net just now and it seems to
> work.  Perhaps it was a temporary problem, or the vulnerability
> scanning by Freenode identified your source IP as known-bad.
> 
> There are many other IRC clients that can be used.  I suggest Xchat or
> Polari.  I use Quassel, with a core instance at laptop.org.
> 
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 07:26:01PM +0100, Chihurumnaya Ibiam wrote:
> > I use polari.
> > 
> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 6:00 PM Ashish Aggarwal <[1]ashish09101998 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >     Facing same issue
> > 
> >     On Jul 22, 2019 22:07, "Swarup N" <[2]nswarup14 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >         Same.
> >         I'm having the same trouble.
> > 
> >         On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 10:05 PM Rahul Bothra <[3]rrbothra at gmail.com>
> >         wrote:
> > 
> >             G'day,
> > 
> >             I'm not getting a 502 on trying to connect to any channels via [4]
> >             https://webchat.freenode.net.
> >             What client is everyone else using?
> > 
> >             Thanks
> >             Rahul Bothra
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> > [1] mailto:ashish09101998 at gmail.com
> > [2] mailto:nswarup14 at gmail.com
> > [3] mailto:rrbothra at gmail.com
> > [4] https://webchat.freenode.net/
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