___ wrote on September 1, 2017 at 4:46 PM

Reply to comment by boringskip in What's Our Best Alternative to Discord? by josefStallman

That only happens on misconfigured servers or when it's done on purpose by the admins either due to ignorance or because they don't care about privacy, see here: https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/Cloaking

boringskip wrote on September 2, 2017 at 5:42 PM

it seems like /whois worked on every server i was ever on, until freenode made some changes

___ wrote on September 3, 2017 at 10:13 PM

The configuration I linked hides your IP from anyone using /whois. I don't recommend using a popular network because you never know what goes on behind the scenes, it is better if a trusted member of the community runs their own IRC server and properly configures it.

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