Bug 1716547 - Switch to libera chat for irc support. rs=me

src/community.en.html

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ our community.
 <p>
 The main channels of community activity within the SeaMonkey project are the
 newsgroup alt.comp.software.seamonkey, the SeaMonkey forums at mozillaZine and
-our irc channel on freenode.
+our irc channel on libera.chat.
 <br>This page also lists other sites covering technical and other topics
 related to SeaMonkey.
 </p>
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Netiquette Guidelines</a> for posting rules and conventions.</p>
 
 <p>
 Lots of SeaMonkey developers and users also gather on IRC in the
-<a href="irc://freenode/SeaMonkey">#seamonkey channel on freenode.net</a>
+<a href="ircs://libera.chat/SeaMonkey">#seamonkey channel on libera.chat</a>
 (This link should directly take you into the channel when you're using
 SeaMonkey with the ChatZilla IRC Client installed, which you should have with
 a full installation.)
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ a full installation.)
 There is also the
 <a href="https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#seamonkey:mozilla.org">
   SeaMonkey room on Matrix</a> which bridges through to the
-<a href="irc://freenode/SeaMonkey">#seamonkey channel on freenode.net</a>.
+<a href="ircs://libera.chat/SeaMonkey">#seamonkey channel on libera.chat</a>.
 For more information on Matrix and other rooms on it, look on the
 <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix">Mozilla Wiki</a>.
 </p>

src/dev/get-involved.en.html

@@ -94,12 +94,12 @@ special skills, and will help improve SeaMonkey.
        <dd>
        <p>SeaMonkey developers tend to hang out on IRC. If you've
        installed ChatZilla, getting connected is
-       <a href="irc://freenode/SeaMonkey">easy</a>. Otherwise, fire up
-       your favorite IRC client and connect to <tt>chat.freenode.net:6667</tt>,
-       <tt>#seamonkey</tt> (a friendly channel frequented by the SeaMonkey
-       developers); so, it is also the development channel. Please note that
-       people are trying to do work in this channel, so please consider using the
-       forum or newsgroups first before asking questions there. Another way to get
+       <a href="ircs://libera.chat/SeaMonkey">easy</a>. Otherwise, fire up
+       your favorite IRC client and connect securely to
+       <tt>irc.libera.chat:6697</tt>, <tt>#seamonkey</tt> (a friendly channel
+       frequented by the SeaMonkey developers); so, it is also the development
+       channel. Please note that for general support questions asking first in
+       the forum or newsgroups might be better. Another way to get
        involved is reading the <a href="../community#groups">newsgroups</a>.</p>
        </dd>
     </dl>

src/news.en.xml

@@ -7,6 +7,36 @@ http://www.damowmow.com/portal/ (use the "Indentify" field)
 -->
 
 <newsfeed title="SeaMonkey News" url="http://seamonkey-project.org/news">
+  <entry id="2021-06-15" showfront="true">
+    <headline>IRC support channel moved to libera.chat</headline>
+    <content type="html" xml:lang="en">
+<![CDATA[<p>
+In the last month freenode became a battleground between former admins and
+management. If you want to know more just use you favorite search engine and
+you find all the information you need.
+<p>
+Because of this we planned for some time now to move our irc presence
+to libera.chat in the next few weeks. Unfortunately freenode forced us
+today to do this on short notice. All registered nicknames were removed
+and channels basically left without operators and owners. This is not
+acceptable and at this point in time we no longer have any interest in
+having a presence there.
+</p>
+<p>
+Effective immediately all official SeaMonkey support on freenode has ended.
+We are now on libera chat. If you are a cZ user we suggest using 2.53.8b1.
+Full support for it has been added to the bundled chatZilla and you don't
+need to set up the libera network manually. There were no problems reported
+against the beta and the final 2.53.8 version will be spun soon.
+<p>
+You can access the SeaMonkey irc channel with the following link
+<a href="ircs://libera.chat/SeaMonkey">
+SeaMonkey irc libera chat channel</a>.
+We are looking forward to see you there. Full logging for the channel will be
+set up soon.
+</p>]]>
+    </content>
+  </entry>
   <entry id="2021-05-31" showfront="true">
     <headline>SeaMonkey 2.53.8 Beta 1 released</headline>
     <content type="html" xml:lang="en">