Re: GHC and the future of Freenode

Pasting directly into the channel is generally a no-no on IRC. Things like Matrix or IRCCloud convert to pastebins automatically. On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 2:07 PM Viktor Dukhovni wrote:

On 19 May 2021, at 11:48 am, Carter Schonwald wrote:

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I personally vote for irc. Perhaps via Libera.

Perhaps I'm too much of an IRC noob, but I still found it it rather surprising to be banned from libera.chat (my IP is blacklisted) for pasting a 25-line build script for building GHC via hadrian on FreeBSD into the #ghc channel.

This was in response to a discussion about issues with the bindist, how the port is built, ... and while perhaps I'm expected to use a paste bin, the abrupt ban was rather a harsh response.

The ban appears to have been "temporary", an hour or so later I am able to reconnect, but this does not leave a good impression.

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