On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, dmolnar wrote:
Something I don't see much of on the efxnet page - "why?"
This is in the FAQ: "EFNext is the name of a project geared towards making IRC a more stable, uniform, chat environment."
and they say "introductory document coming soon." I still don't know why this is happening (I don't hang out on EFnet). What do the efxnet people give as their reasons for a new IRC network?
Well, as an EFnet user, I can say that EFnet is pretty unreliable. Network splits are extremely common (major splits occuring once every 3 or 4 hours, and usually lasting about 10 minutes or so). Lag between major irc servers is often quite apparent. All-in-all, EFnet needs a lot of work. Some of the other networks like Chatnet behave better, but they are also smaller and have less users. Is there a need for a new IRC network? Unclear. I think that the probolems EFnet has are not going to be fixed by relacing it. The IRC servers simply need to be more reliable. Alex