IRC Channel Moving to Libera.Chat
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As many of you might have heard, the Freenode IRC network changed management a week ago, in what can only be described as a hostile takeover. The original Freenode staff that has taken great care of us for about two decades now have all resigned from Freenode, and created Libera.Chat, which we have decided to migrate to. This decision aligns with hundreds other open source projects making the same migration now, including Ubuntu, Gentoo, Wikimedia, FreeBSD, Fedora, Arch Linux, LibreELEC, Arduino, and PostgreSQL. We understand that this may be disruptive, but believe this move will ultimately be best for everyone.
In order to ensure that our relatively small IRC community of users isn’t divided long term, we have muted our channel on Freenode, leaving a notice with updated instructions for joining our new channel on Libera.Chat, where you will find all of the same helpful and experienced wxWidgets users.
Please see our IRC Channel page for help with connecting to Libera.Chat.