Jekyll2025-10-08T16:01:16+00:00https://www.oftc.net/feed.xml2025-07-13T00:00:00+00:002025-07-13T00:00:00+00:00https://www.oftc.net/2025/07/13/update<ul> <li> <p>We are excited to announce that we have voted to adopt <a href="https://www.oftc.net/constitution/">a new constitution for OFTC</a>! This new version comes after more than a year of discussion and drafting, and as this update is substantially more than a simple amendment, SPI was consulted about the change. The goals of this rewrite include calibrating our governance document with how the network’s process have adapted over the past two decades, and reducing the administrative overhead in our annual elections. <a href="https://www.oftc.net/oldconstitution/">The old version</a> is still available for comparison.</p> <p>We initiated an amendment vote on June 7, ending July 7, with the outcome announced to staff and the SPI board on July 12. The previous constitution required 3/4ths of NOC and 3/4ths of NetOps to vote yes for the amendment to pass. The final results were:</p> <ul> <li>NOC: 7 yes, 0 no, 1 didn’t vote</li> <li>NetOp: 6 yes, 0 no, 1 didn’t vote</li> </ul> </li> </ul>

We are excited to announce that we have voted to adopt a new constitution for OFTC! This new version comes after more than a year of discussion and drafting, and as this update is substantially more than a simple amendment, SPI was consulted about the change. The goals of this rewrite include calibrating our governance document with how the network’s process have adapted over the past two decades, and reducing the administrative overhead in our annual elections. The old version is still available for comparison.

2025-04-25T00:00:00+00:002025-04-25T00:00:00+00:00https://www.oftc.net/2025/04/25/update<ul> <li>At the end of February we <a href="https://www.oftc.net/2025/02/28/update/">learned that</a> The Matrix.org Foundation required additional funding to avoid decommissioning the official Matrix bridge to OFTC. In early April we were informed of a potential sponsorship that would save the bridge, however due to a serious wave of abuse on the Matrix platform, confirmation of this was not possible at that time. The Foundation has now confirmed that their primary sponsor, Element, has pledged to ensure that the Foundation can continue operating the OFTC bridge.</li> </ul>

At the end of February we learned that The Matrix.org Foundation required additional funding to avoid decommissioning the official Matrix bridge to OFTC. In early April we were informed of a potential sponsorship that would save the bridge, however due to a serious wave of abuse on the Matrix platform, confirmation of this was not possible at that time. The Foundation has now confirmed that their primary sponsor, Element, has pledged to ensure that the Foundation can continue operating the OFTC bridge.

2025-02-28T00:00:00+00:002025-02-28T00:00:00+00:00https://www.oftc.net/2025/02/28/update<ul> <li> <p>The Matrix.org Foundation recently published a <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/crossroads/">blog post</a> stating that unless they raise temporary funding by the end of March, and also solicit further, more sustained funding in the month after that, they will start scaling back operations and discontinue running and maintaining their flagship inter-protocol bridges, including the official bridge to OFTC.</p> <p>In the event that they do not meet their ambitious goals, we are providing pointers below to resources so that our users can plan how to proceed, and avoid splitting their communities.</p> <p>While there are some forks of the matrix-appservice-irc codebase, we are not aware of any equipped to maintain this as a community fork. However, there are other options, such as <a href="https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge">Matterbridge</a> which bridges to a variety of other protocols as well, and <a href="https://github.com/hifi/heisenbridge">Heisenbridge</a> which offers a one-to-many bridging option.</p> <p>The Matrix.org Foundation has indicated to us that that they will make plans for the worst-case scenario, and we will communicate further as we get more information.</p> </li> </ul>

The Matrix.org Foundation recently published a blog post stating that unless they raise temporary funding by the end of March, and also solicit further, more sustained funding in the month after that, they will start scaling back operations and discontinue running and maintaining their flagship inter-protocol bridges, including the official bridge to OFTC.

2024-11-01T00:00:00+00:002024-11-01T00:00:00+00:00https://www.oftc.net/2024/11/01/update<ul> <li><a href="/ElectionResults/2024">2024 staff election results</a> - thanks to Steve McIntyre (Sledge) and Pierre-Elliott Bécue (peb) for running the elections as counters this year.</li> </ul>

2024 staff election results - thanks to Steve McIntyre (Sledge) and Pierre-Elliott Bécue (peb) for running the elections as counters this year.

2024-03-23T00:00:00+00:002024-03-23T00:00:00+00:00https://www.oftc.net/2024/03/23/update<ul> <li><a href="/ElectionResults/2023">2023 staff election results</a> - thanks to Steve McIntyre (Sledge), Alexander Færøy (ahf), and Pierre-Elliott Bécue (peb) for running the elections as counters this year.</li> </ul>

2023 staff election results - thanks to Steve McIntyre (Sledge), Alexander Færøy (ahf), and Pierre-Elliott Bécue (peb) for running the elections as counters this year.

2023-10-10T00:00:00+00:002023-10-10T00:00:00+00:00https://www.oftc.net/2023/10/10/update<ul> <li><a href="/ElectionResults/2022">2022 staff election results</a> - They’re a year late, but 2022 election results have been posted. Thanks to Steve McIntyre (Sledge), Alexander Færøy (ahf), and Pierre-Elliott Bécue (peb) for running the elections as counters this year.</li> </ul>

2022 staff election results - They’re a year late, but 2022 election results have been posted. Thanks to Steve McIntyre (Sledge), Alexander Færøy (ahf), and Pierre-Elliott Bécue (peb) for running the elections as counters this year.

2022-10-24T00:00:00+00:002022-10-24T00:00:00+00:00https://www.oftc.net/2022/10/24/update<ul> <li> <p>OFTC wants to upgrade the services in use to the Atheme variant. One user visible change will be the uniqueness of SSL cert fingerprints for accounts. If you are using SSL CertFP to identify to your accounts, please review the fingerprints associated with your account(s) and ensure that they are not duplicated between your accounts. This only applies if you have multiple separate accounts using the same fingerprint. Linked/grouped nicks are only a single account.</p> <p>We intend to remove any remaining duplicate fingerprint entries on 2022-11-22. The removal algorithm will delete duplicates from all but the most recently used account.</p> </li> </ul>

OFTC wants to upgrade the services in use to the Atheme variant. One user visible change will be the uniqueness of SSL cert fingerprints for accounts. If you are using SSL CertFP to identify to your accounts, please review the fingerprints associated with your account(s) and ensure that they are not duplicated between your accounts. This only applies if you have multiple separate accounts using the same fingerprint. Linked/grouped nicks are only a single account.

2022-01-17T00:00:00+00:002022-01-17T00:00:00+00:00https://www.oftc.net/2022/01/17/update<ul> <li>We now offer a <a href="/Tor">Tor</a> hidden service: <a href="ircs://oftcnet6xg6roj6d7id4y4cu6dchysacqj2ldgea73qzdagufflqxrid.onion:6697">ircs://oftcnet6xg6roj6d7id4y4cu6dchysacqj2ldgea73qzdagufflqxrid.onion</a>.</li> </ul>

We now offer a Tor hidden service: ircs://oftcnet6xg6roj6d7id4y4cu6dchysacqj2ldgea73qzdagufflqxrid.onion.

2021-11-05T00:00:00+00:002021-11-05T00:00:00+00:00https://www.oftc.net/2021/11/05/update<ul> <li><a href="/ElectionResults/2021">2021 staff election results</a> - thanks to Steve McIntyre (Sledge) and Alexander Færøy (ahf) for running the elections as counters this year.</li> </ul>

2021 staff election results - thanks to Steve McIntyre (Sledge) and Alexander Færøy (ahf) for running the elections as counters this year.

2021-10-07T00:00:00+00:002021-10-07T00:00:00+00:00https://www.oftc.net/2021/10/07/update<ul> <li>We’ve reconfigured our <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/2021/10/01/cert-chaining-help.html">Let’s Encrypt TLS certificates to not use the expired DST Root CA X3</a>, which should resolve issues with some clients and older TLS implementations. Note that if you’re using Android older than 7.1.1, you will no longer be able to connect without manually trusting the Let’s Encrypt CA.</li> </ul>

We’ve reconfigured our Let’s Encrypt TLS certificates to not use the expired DST Root CA X3, which should resolve issues with some clients and older TLS implementations. Note that if you’re using Android older than 7.1.1, you will no longer be able to connect without manually trusting the Let’s Encrypt CA.