As of today we have disabled access to the freenode irc network via mibbit. While there are numerous reasons for this, it ultimately comes down to the ability to prevent abuse via this client. We allow connections from many types of web gateways, and such connections require a certain amount of trust and communication between the server operators and the gateway operators. While we have tried to maintain a good working relationship with anyone who wishes to provide access to freenode and are lucky that most of our users and projects are very friendly and communicative, we have found it difficult to maintain open communications with mibbit. This has resulted in a large amount of staff time being spent on managing abuse coming from mibbit, disrupting service for other mibbit users and reducing the quality of the network. Sadly, we feel that this is ultimately not beneficial to mibbit users or the network as a whole.
We apologize to those who used mibbit for the inconvenience this has caused, and for the need to find a new client or method to connect to freenode.
In response to this, we have implemented our own web gateway at http://webchat.freenode.net. The webchat runs qwebirc package which was developed for and extensively used by quakenet. We’d like to extend our thanks to Chris “slug” Porter and the rest of the team for making it available.
Some of the features of qwebirc can be found here.
Our new webchat facility also makes it easy to add to your own site. To do this, just click on the menu icon on the top left corner where you will find an “add webchat to your site” option. You will be taken through an easy wizard to get this going and get the webchat on your very own site!
Try Chatzilla for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16
Come on. This is not a very nice move. Please rethink your decision and re-enable access from mibbit. Mibbit is a really nice webapp. I only have access to the net through port 80 and I could not find a other webbased irc service that is working this smooth
Hello can I suggest what you go back with mibbit it was easer for me also
and oh yes the new chat you offer only lets you to join freenoda
@Ferk: try ChatZilla for FireFox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16
[...] freenode webchat (and why to use it) – http://blog.freenode.net/2009/06/new-freenode-webchat-and-why-to-use-it/ [...]
ChatZilla doesn’t work through a proxy or port 80
I agree with this ban, we have a large channel of around 100 users and we had to end up blanket banning Mibbit because of the number of idiots connecting from there and causing trouble.
Really it just acts like an open proxy for abuse. If you need to get around a firewall or something, just setup a BNC instead.
Kudos to Freenode for having some backbone and cutting off Mibbit!
Since yesterday morning , I can’t use freenode’webchat anymore.
I see a page with :
[12:43] qwebirc v0.85
[12:43] Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Chris Porter and the qwebirc project.
[12:43] http://www.qwebirc.org
[12:43] Licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2.
Then A popup say “An error occured: Invalid session, this most likely means the server has restarted; close this dialog and then try refreshing the page”.
FireFox 3.5.7, useragent: iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16.
Javaplugin 1.6.0_16.
I have cleanup my cache, cookies, etc.
What’s wrong?
Wen.
Seem fixed today.
Thank
Wen.