New And Upcoming Features
Adding bot mode, a “restrict bots” channel mode, the +channel-context tag, no-implict-names, and labeled-response.
News Archive
Bot/LLM policy update
Planned updates to our policies regarding bots and LLMs
IRCv3 Downgrades
Backporting IRCv3 +typing tags and more to older clients.
New And Upcoming IRCv3 Features
Adding message-tags, batch, msgid, and invite-notify.
The good advice
We can argue that we are out-of-scope for the UK’s Online Safety Act.
The price of good advice
Fundraising to get legal advice about the UK’s Online Safety Act.
OSUOSL is worth saving
The Oregon State University Open Source Lab needs help!
Are your channels visible enough?
How to ensure that channels which should be findable are findable.
Addressing Burnout
Using AI for network support tasks. (April Fools)
A belated state of the network
The state of the network at the end of 2024.
Establishing an etiquette for LLM use on Libera.Chat
Best practices for LLM usage on Libera.Chat.
Retiring CertFP Expiration Verification
Your expired TLS client certificates will no longer be rejected.
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!
The state of the network after three years of operation.
Account Auto-Cloaking
The cloaks bot is dead, all hail the cloaks service module!
New And Upcoming Features
by el, glguy, moonmoon, She, spb
Some more IRC features to try or look forward to.
Official Matrix bridge farewell
Next steps for Matrix users following the shutdown of the EMS bridge.
Matrix Bridge Temporary Shutdown, a Retrospective
How did things with the Matrix bridge get to this point?
Temporarily disabling the Matrix Bridge
The Matrix bridge is down for now due to a regression.
Delays in Disabling Matrix Portalling
Portalling will now be disabled on 2023-08-11 at EMS’s request.
Disabling Matrix Portalling
Portalled channels will be going away on 2023-07-31. Details below.
Updates on the matrix<>IRC bridge
About possible future limitations on the bridge.
Happy 2nd Birthday, Libera Chat!
The state of the network after two years of operation.
Changing Default For Login Failure Notices
The NickServ BADPASSWDMSG setting now defaults to OFF.
Libera.Chat and FreeWear.org partnership for merchandise
Buy stuff with our logo on it to support us!
Login Failure Notice Opt-Out
Introducing the NickServ BADPASSWDMSG setting.
New And Upcoming Features
IRC features to try out and look forward to.
Happy Birthday, Libera Chat!
The state of the network after one year of operation.
2021 Libera end of year review
The state of the network at the end of 2021.
Let's Encrypt root CA expiry
Why Hexchat on Windows started getting TLS failures recently.
Lengthening Nickname Expiry
Nicknames now expire after 20 weeks instead of 10.
Just over 100 days of Libera Chat
The state of the network after just over three months of operation.
One month of Libera Chat
The state of the network after one month of operation.
One week of Libera Chat
The state of the network after one week of operation.
Welcome to Libera Chat
A warm welcome to a new IRC network!