Skip to content Navigation Close About Network Policies Channel Guidelines Bylaws Channel Namespaces Guides Connect irc.libera.chat:6697 (TLS) irc.libera.chat:6667 (plaintext) How to Connect Twitter Facebook Our policies outline that channels on Libera.Chat fall into one of three categories and two namespaces. Channels that begin with only a single # character are either project or community channels. Channels that begin with two # characters are informal channels. Project channels are reserved for on-topic channels as per our on-topic projects , represented by owners with an official claim to that name. A registered project as per the registration below can claim ownership over project channels bearing the group’s names or name prefixes. For example, Libera.Chat itself owns the channel #libera and all channels beginning with #libera- . As per our p...