On Tue, 9 Jun 2015 19:31:01 +0200 Andreas Tunek andreas.tunek@gmail.com wrote:
Currently the #fedora channel on freenode requires some kind of registration.
Yeah. It has for many years...
In my opinion it is pretty difficult to register on freenode (I have tried but haven't managed).
What part of the process is proving to be difficult? If you aren't registered and try and join #fedora it sends you to #fedora-unregistered where the entry message, topic and a bot all give you links showing how to register. Is there something that could be more clear here?
Do you think it would be possible to drop the registration requirement? It is a pretty big barrier to newbies and people like me who can't find IRC help easily. I know there are a lot of bots and spam, but maybe it would be possible to try and see if it really gets bad?
Well, you are welcome to file a ticket and request that with the irc support sig: https://fedorahosted.org/irc-support-sig/
But I don't think it's too likely to happen for a lot of reasons:
* Originally the registration was put in place when there were floods of racist ranter bots on freenode. They are much less common now, but I still see them in unregistered from time to time.
* There's also a lot of drive by spam and trollers that get caught by registration.
kevin