News Archive
Addressing Burnout
1st April 2025
by Libera.Chat Staff
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
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A belated state of the network
17th February 2025
by el
Happy 2025 everyone!
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Establishing an etiquette for LLM use on Libera.Chat
22nd November 2024
by staff
Greetings fellow humans!
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Retiring CertFP Expiration Verification
9th July 2024
by el
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.
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PSA: Critical vulnerability in ZNC's modtcl
3rd July 2024
by She, el
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 .
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Three!
19th May 2024
by el
Hello everyone!
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Account Auto-Cloaking
2nd April 2024
by She
Hello Libera.Chat users!
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New And Upcoming Features
4th December 2023
by el, glguy, moonmoon, She, spb
Hello Libera.Chat users,
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Official Matrix bridge farewell
28th November 2023
by el
Hello, I am the bearer of unfortunate news.
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Matrix Bridge Temporary Shutdown, a Retrospective
10th August 2023
by el, She, Allie, Ben
Update: We no longer have an official Matrix bridge. Please see our
FAQ about Matrix for more information about using Matrix on
Libera.Chat.
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Temporarily disabling the Matrix Bridge
5th August 2023
by Allie and el
Update: We no longer have an official Matrix bridge. Please see our
FAQ about Matrix for more information about using Matrix on
Libera.Chat.
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Delays in Disabling Matrix Portalling
28th July 2023
by kline
Update: We no longer have an official Matrix bridge. Please see our
FAQ about Matrix for more information about using Matrix on
Libera.Chat.
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Disabling Matrix Portalling
3rd July 2023
by Allie
Update: We no longer have an official Matrix bridge. Please see our
FAQ about Matrix for more information about using Matrix on
Libera.Chat.
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Updates on the matrix<>IRC bridge
7th June 2023
by Allie
Update: We no longer have an official Matrix bridge. Please see our
FAQ about Matrix for more information about using Matrix on
Libera.Chat.
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Happy 2nd Birthday, Libera Chat!
19th May 2023
by Fuchs
Hello everyone,
today we celebrate the second anniversary of Libera.Chat going public!
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Changing Default For Login Failure Notices
2nd April 2023
by She
Hello Libera.Chat users,
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Libera.Chat and FreeWear.org partnership for merchandise
10th February 2023
by Fuchs
Hello Libera Chat users,
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Login Failure Notice Opt-Out
16th January 2023
by jess
Hello everyone,
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New And Upcoming Features
16th October 2022
by She
Hello Libera Chat users,
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Happy Birthday, Libera Chat!
19th May 2022
by staff
Hello everyone,
today we celebrate the anniversary of Libera.Chat going public!
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2021 Libera end of year review
20th December 2021
by staff
Hello everyone!
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Let's Encrypt root CA expiry
30th September 2021
by edk
Hello,
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Lengthening Nickname Expiry
30th September 2021
by kline
Hello Libera Chat users,
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Just over 100 days of Libera Chat
29th August 2021
by el, glguy
Hello everyone!
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One month of Libera Chat
30th June 2021
by Fuchs
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!
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One week of Libera Chat
25th May 2021
by kline
Hello, Libera Chat users!
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Welcome to Libera Chat
19th May 2021
by staff
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.
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