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<p>There is currently a massive, widespread and long-lived spam
attack taking place against Freenode, who run the IRC channels we use to
discuss Ardour, provide support and chat among developers and users.</p>
<p>After several days, Freenode has been unable to stop the flow of
spam, which comes every few minutes and is at risk of destroying the <code>#ardour</code> channel's usability. </p>
<p>Until they have found some way to stop the problem, the <code>#ardour</code>
channel is being set to require an SSL (Secure Socket Layer)
connection, which will prevent any access via the web-based interface
that this page and Ardour itself links to. You can still access #ardour
as usual with an actual IRC client. </p>
<p>We hope this won't last very long, but it's not viable to have this
much spam in the channel. I apologize to anyone who uses the web-based
access method.</p>
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