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Something is Happening at OFTC

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 22, 2024,

updated Jul 22, 2024

=> IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 21, 2024 | A Drop in Half (From 208 to 104): Sharp Decline in Number of Gemini Capsules That Use Let's Encrypt CA Since December

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It looks like it shrank by 20,000 users and the Matrix bridge still seems to be intact

The other day OFTC was probing all the online users (we've verified this with other people already) and then the number of users dropped sharply. As per this page:

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OFTC usage

We spent nearly half a day looking for answers and even ended up asking OFTC (more directly) for answers, to no avail so far...

More details are in our IRC logs.

About a year ago Libera.Chat shrank by a lot when it dropped the Matrix bridge [1, 2].

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We wanted to have answers before publishing this, but nobody says anything. We'll follow up or update as soon as we hear anything substantial.

OFTC is one of the biggest IRC networks out there, so this is kind of a big deal. █

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