This page provides a few details about using IRC with the Drupal community, for historical interest. While you can still connect to the Drupal IRC channels, you will not currently find many people chatting in them. In the past, the Drupal community used to use IRC in a variety of channels on :6697 (TLS). IRC servers around the world each host multiple channels for chatting. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a real-time text chat system.

Usage of IRC had dramatically declined within the Drupal community several years prior to the Freenode sale, however the Drupal Association has reserved the #drupal-* and #drupalassociation-* namespaces within Libera, should some community members choose to continue using IRC. As a result many of the staff members of the Freenode service have resigned, citing the acquisition as a ' hostile takeover.'Īs a result, many communities formerly hosted on Freenode have migrated to Libera.chat. In May of 2021, the Freenode IRC server was sold by the former head of Freenode staff. Important Update about Freenode vs Libera

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