Improving our efficiency. From Konversation (minutes ago):

There are new additions (the count above does not include users in other networks, e.g. over 80 users at #techrights in Freenode and -- against our will -- in LC)

Summary: The IRC channels in the new network include #TechPol -- another addition that helps keep the main channel focused on our principal priorities

SINCE moving to our shiny (new) IRC network, which we self-host, we've had people create some additional channels. This wasn't our intention, but that's just the nature of IRC and how it works. To avoid depending on proprietary software (GitHub), ranging from proprietary platform to proprietary JavaScript, we've made a local (plain text) version of the IRC manuals. We currently use ergo, which is written in Go and has thus far been very reliable.

One new channel that we've adopted as semi-official is #TechPol (for politics) -- a channel whose purpose is to sort of offload more political or less tech-focused discussions, removing them from the main channel, which is #TechRights. We hope this can help enhance and improve the signal/noise (s/n) ratio in the main channel. Some of the other channels are used to document relevant communications and links that later go into Daily Links. TuxMachines uses the Techrights IRC server as a sort of safe haven, seeing that Freenode cannot be relied on anymore (even just for technical reasons). ⬆