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* <span style="color: red">no services</span>
* <span style="color: red">no services</span>
* <span style="color: red">broken web chat (silent truncation of long messages)</span>
* <span style="color: red">broken web chat (silent truncation of long messages)</span>
* <span style="color: red">Tor connections generally disallowed/banned (exact policy varying per server)</span>
* <span style="color: red">policy varying per server (e.g. no bots allowed on some servers)</span>


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* <span style="color: green">services (automatic opping/voicing, proper access control for restricted channels)</span>
* <span style="color: green">services (automatic opping/voicing, proper access control for restricted channels)</span>
* <span style="color: green">security: TLS required, valid TLS certificates (one of the few IRC networks!)</span>
* <span style="color: green">security: TLS required, valid TLS certificates (one of the few IRC networks!)</span>
* <span style="color: green">Tor connections welcome</span>
* <span style="color: green">accessibility (XMPP etc., though that's apparently not working properly at the moment)</span>
* <span style="color: green">accessibility (XMPP etc., though that's apparently not working properly at the moment)</span>
* <span style="color: green">policy</span>
* <span style="color: green">permissive policy (anything legal per German and Dutch laws is allowed)</span>
* <span style="color: green">backed by like-minded people (Chaos Computer Club)</span>
* <span style="color: green">backed by like-minded people (Chaos Computer Club)</span>
* <span style="color: red">not very old</span>
* <span style="color: red">not very old</span>

Revision as of 14:27, 20 December 2019

EFnet:

  • more decentralised
  • old
  • unstable (netsplits, server outages)
  • ridiculous channel, nick, and topic length limits
  • low channel join limits (i.e. how many channels you can join from one connection) on almost all servers; limit varies between servers such that a reconnect might cause join errors
  • varying degrees of IPv6 and TLS support depending on the server; no valid TLS certificates anywhere
  • no services
  • broken web chat (silent truncation of long messages)
  • Tor connections generally disallowed/banned (exact policy varying per server)
  • policy varying per server (e.g. no bots allowed on some servers)

hackint:

  • stable
  • services (automatic opping/voicing, proper access control for restricted channels)
  • security: TLS required, valid TLS certificates (one of the few IRC networks!)
  • Tor connections welcome
  • accessibility (XMPP etc., though that's apparently not working properly at the moment)
  • permissive policy (anything legal per German and Dutch laws is allowed)
  • backed by like-minded people (Chaos Computer Club)
  • not very old
  • run entirely by one organisation

Stability comparison over about 4 months (end of August to end of December), excluding network issues on my side:

  • EFnet: 8 disconnects, 68 netsplits of unknown total time because sometimes there is no proper rejoin of the split server; several server outages where everyone connected just suddenly times out, not easily trackable
  • hackint: zero disconnects, four netsplits totalling less than 10 minutes (574 seconds) and rejoining cleanly every time