Permanent IRC habrachannel on the I2P darknet

In light of the events of the last two years related to part of the product of the legislative activity of the Government of the Russian Federation relating to copyright and related rights, and describing the norms for combating their violation, it was decided to produce a means whose purpose would be saving the Habrahabr community from destruction in case of abuse of a number of Internet laws not in favor of Habrahabr.

Taking into account that Habrahabr still does not work via encrypted HTTP and does not have an IP address of the sixth version, not to mention the gateway of Habrahabr to the darknets, and the position of Habrahabr’s management on this matter has been expressed more than once, it was decided not to expect progress from Habrahabr, do not bicker or argue about the appropriateness of a number of topics on Habrahabr, but just organize open, anonymous platform discussions general. By Habrowsers for Habrowsers.

General discussions.
Yes, Khabrovsk residents really already had and have somewhere to go - thematic chats of projects of small communities that grew out of the Habracommunity have already been created (XMPP conferences public@dev.altroism.org, torrents-database@conference.jabber.no), not to mention annual tradition of getting together on IRC and Jabber conferences for the New Year.

However, there has been no general realtime chat yet.

So, to all Habrausers, active and read-only, welcome to #habrahabr on the Irc2P network!

To connect, you need a configured one (on Habré there is I2P hub, where almost every article describes a simple process for setting up a router, but I made a small FAQ here too) and a working I2P router, as well as an IRC client with Unicode support (Chatzilla, irssi, xchat, Colloquy, mIRC or any other).

Once everything is installed and configured, point your IRC client to port 6668, opened by the I2P router, and go to the #habrahabr channel! Encoding - UTF-8.

A little about the channel structure and plans. Most likely, at first, if Khabrovsk residents are still interested in this idea, the owner of the channel and the author of the idea Liumee (rafael), I and a few other people will hang out on the channel, but then, when the first wave has passed, if there are enough interested users left, there is an idea to move on to the next model:

• perhaps all non-readonly Habrahabr users will receive moderator powers, or only selected Habrausers who are trusted by the community, and if (when/suddenly) they are interested;
• verification of ro/rw users will be done manually at first, but there are plans to write an IRC bot whose duties can be entrusted with automatic verification (this is just fun and cool) of the user (in addition, it is possible to broadcast the entire Live broadcast, or only topics per channel; changes in the Best of the Day list; registration of new Habr users, and so on - the scope of imagination is enormous, not counting the usual bot services such as memo, news and seen).

Ideas and wishes (except for “drown yourself”, “I2P is not needed” or “IRC is not needed”) from Khabrovsk residents are taken into account!

PS Thank you namespace for an invite author of the idea and owner of the channel rafael ( Liumee).




PPPS Maximum recorded quantity Human on the channel: fifty!.