865 lines
24 KiB
HTML
865 lines
24 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html lang="en"><head>
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<meta charset="utf-8">
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<meta content="IE=edge" http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible">
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<meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" name="viewport"><!-- Begin Jekyll SEO tag v2.8.0 -->
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<title>Libera Chat | A next-generation IRC network for FOSS projects collaboration!</title>
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<meta name="generator" content="Jekyll v3.9.2" />
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<meta property="og:title" content="Libera Chat" />
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<meta property="og:locale" content="en_GB" />
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<meta name="description" content="A next-generation IRC network for FOSS projects collaboration!" />
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<meta property="og:description" content="A next-generation IRC network for FOSS projects collaboration!" />
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<link rel="canonical" href="index.html" />
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<meta property="og:url" content="https://libera.chat/" />
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<meta property="og:site_name" content="Libera Chat" />
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<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
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<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" />
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<meta property="twitter:title" content="Libera Chat" />
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<meta name="twitter:site" content="@liberachat" />
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<meta property="article:publisher" content="liberachat" />
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<script type="application/ld+json">
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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organisation","description":"A next-generation IRC network for FOSS projects collaboration!","headline":"Libera Chat","name":"Libera Chat","url":"https://libera.chat/"}</script>
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<link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml" href="static/img/libera-color.svg">
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<link rel="alternate icon" href="favicon.ico">
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<style>/*! modern-normalize v1.0.0 | MIT License | https://github.com/sindresorhus/modern-normalize */
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*,::after,::before{box-sizing:border-box}:root{-moz-tab-size:4;tab-size:4}html{line-height:1.15;-webkit-text-size-adjust:100%}body{margin:0}body{font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji'}hr{height:0;color:inherit}abbr[title]{text-decoration:underline dotted}b,strong{font-weight:bolder}code,kbd,pre,samp{font-family:ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,monospace;font-size:1em}small{font-size:80%}sub,sup{font-size:75%;line-height:0;position:relative;vertical-align:baseline}sub{bottom:-.25em}sup{top:-.5em}table{text-indent:0;border-color:inherit}button,input,optgroup,select,textarea{font-family:inherit;font-size:100%;line-height:1.15;margin:0}button,select{text-transform:none}[type=button],[type=reset],[type=submit],button{-webkit-appearance:button}::-moz-focus-inner{border-style:none;padding:0}:-moz-focusring{outline:1px dotted ButtonText}:-moz-ui-invalid{box-shadow:none}legend{padding:0}progress{vertical-align:baseline}::-webkit-inner-spin-button,::-webkit-outer-spin-button{height:auto}[type=search]{-webkit-appearance:textfield;outline-offset:-2px}::-webkit-search-decoration{-webkit-appearance:none}::-webkit-file-upload-button{-webkit-appearance:button;font:inherit}summary{display:list-item}</style>
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<style>@font-face {
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/* comfortaa-regular - subset */
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font-family: 'Comfortaa';
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src: url('static/fonts/comfortaa-v30-subset-regular.woff2') format('woff2'), url('static/fonts/comfortaa-v30-subset-regular.woff') format('woff'), url('static/fonts/comfortaa-v30-subset-regular.ttf') format('truetype');
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font-style: normal;
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font-weight: 400;
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font-display: swap;
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/* . C L a b e h i r t */
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unicode-range: U+002E, U+0043, U+004C, U+0061-0062, U+0065, U+0068-0069, U+0072, U+0074;
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}
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@font-face {
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/* ubuntu-regular - latin */
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font-family: 'Ubuntu';
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src: local(''), url('static/fonts/ubuntu-v15-latin-regular.woff2') format('woff2'), url('static/fonts/ubuntu-v15-latin-regular.woff') format('woff'), url('static/fonts/ubuntu-v15-latin-regular.ttf') format('truetype');
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font-style: normal;
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font-weight: 400;
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font-display: swap;
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}
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@font-face {
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/* ubuntu-500 - subset */
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font-family: 'Ubuntu';
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src: local(''), url('static/fonts/ubuntu-v15-subset-500.woff2') format('woff2'), url('static/fonts/ubuntu-v15-subset-500.woff') format('woff'), url('static/fonts/ubuntu-v15-subset-500.ttf') format('truetype');
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font-style: normal;
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font-weight: 500;
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font-display: swap;
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/* C c e n o t */
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unicode-range: U+0043 U+0063 U+0065 U+006E U+006F U+0074;
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}
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:root {
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--header-height: 4rem;
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--content-inline-padding: 1.3rem;
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--content-max-width: 80ch;
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/* define our palette for all themes */
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--white: #fff;
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--gray-100: #f3f4f6;
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--gray-200: #e5e7eb;
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--gray-300: #d1d5db;
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--gray-400: #9ca3af;
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--gray-800: #1f2937;
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--gray-900: #111827;
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--brand-purple: #5555ff;
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--brand-pink: #ff55dd;
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/* light-theme vars */
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--c-bg: var(--gray-100);
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--c-bg-secondary: var(--white);
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--c-text: var(--gray-800);
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--c-border: var(--gray-300);
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--c-hl: var(--brand-pink);
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--c-hl-secondary: var(--brand-purple);
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--c-text-on-hl: var(--gray-800);
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--c-text-on-hl-secondary: var(--white);
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}
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@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
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:root {
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--c-bg: var(--gray-800);
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--c-bg-secondary: var(--gray-900);
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--c-text: var(--gray-200);
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--c-border: var(--gray-400);
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}
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}
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* {
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color: var(--c-text);
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box-sizing: border-box;
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font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif;
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letter-spacing: .1ch;
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}
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main *, .hero * {
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line-height: 1.5;
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}
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body {
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background-color: var(--c-bg);
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min-height: 100vh;
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display: grid;
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grid-template-rows: var(--header-height) min-content auto auto min-content;
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grid-template-columns: 1fr;
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grid-template-areas: "header" "hero" "main" "aside" "footer";
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}
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a {
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text-decoration: underline;
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text-underline-offset: .05rem;
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}
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a:hover {
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text-underline-offset: .25rem;
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color: var(--c-hl);
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}
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h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p {
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word-break: break-word;
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scroll-margin-block-start: 4.5rem;
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}
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h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, strong {
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font-weight: 500;
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}
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em {
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font-style: italic;
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}
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h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
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margin-block-end: 0;
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}
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h1+*, h2+*, h3+*, h4+*, h5+*, h6+* {
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margin-block-start: 0;
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}
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main h1 {
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font-size: 2.25rem;
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}
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main h2 {
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font-size: 1.5rem;
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}
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main h3 {
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font-size: 1.25rem;
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}
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main :is(h2, h3, h4, h5, h6) a {
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text-decoration: none;
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position: relative;
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}
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main :is(h2, h3, h4, h5, h6) a:hover::before {
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content: '#';
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position: absolute;
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left: -1.5ch;
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bottom: 0;
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font-weight: normal;
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font-size: 1rem;
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}
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@media screen and (min-width: 800px) {
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body {
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grid-template-columns: min-content 8fr;
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grid-template-rows: 4rem min-content auto min-content;
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grid-template-areas: "header header" "hero hero" "aside main" "footer footer";
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}
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}
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.skiplink {
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z-index: 9999;
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transform: translateY(calc(-100% - 1rem));
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display: block;
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position: absolute;
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height: 4rem;
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padding: var(--content-inline-padding);
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background-color: var(--c-bg);
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border-inline-end: 1px solid var(--c-border);
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border-block-end: 1px solid var(--c-border);
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}
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.skiplink:focus {
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z-index: 9999;
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transform: translateY(0);
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}
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header {
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grid-area: header;
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height: var(--header-height);
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border-block-end: 1px solid var(--c-border);
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background-color: var(--c-bg-secondary);
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position: sticky;
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top: 0;
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z-index: 1000;
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display: flex;
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flex-direction: row;
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flex-wrap: nowrap;
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justify-content: space-between;
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}
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header a {
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text-decoration: none;
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}
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header .logo {
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display: flex;
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flex-wrap: nowrap;
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align-items: center;
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height: 100%;
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padding-inline-start: var(--content-inline-padding);
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}
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header .logo img {
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padding-block-end: .3rem;
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}
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header .logo h1 {
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margin: 0;
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margin-bottom: -.4rem;
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font-size: 1.7rem;
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line-height: 1;
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font-family: Comfortaa, Ubuntu, sans-serif;
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font-weight: bold;
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}
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header .nav-toggle {
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display: block;
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border-inline-start: 1px solid var(--c-border);
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padding: 0 1rem;
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display: flex;
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align-items: center;
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cursor: pointer;
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}
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header nav details summary, header nav a {
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border-block-end: 1px solid var(--c-border);
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padding: 1rem;
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display: flex;
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align-items: center;
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cursor: pointer;
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white-space: nowrap;
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}
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header nav details summary::before {
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content: "►";
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padding-inline-end: .3rem;
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}
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header nav details[open] summary::before {
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content: "▼";
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}
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header nav .nav-close {
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display: none;
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}
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header nav.show .nav-close {
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display: flex;
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}
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header nav {
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transform: translateY(calc(-100% - 1rem));
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display: flex;
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flex-direction: column;
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justify-content: flex-start;
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position: fixed;
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right: 0;
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top: 0;
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bottom: 0;
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background-color: var(--c-bg-secondary);
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min-width: 20rem;
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max-width: 30rem;
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border-inline-start: 1px solid var(--c-border);
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z-index: 10000;
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}
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header nav.show, header nav:focus-within {
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transform: translateY(0);
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}
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header nav details summary.highlight, header nav a.highlight {
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background-color: var(--c-hl);
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color: var(--c-text-on-hl);
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font-weight: 500;
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}
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header nav details summary:hover, header nav a:hover {
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background-color: var(--c-bg);
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}
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header nav details summary.highlight:hover, header nav a.highlight:hover {
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background-color: var(--c-hl-secondary);
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color: var(--c-text-on-hl-secondary);
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}
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header nav details {
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display: flex;
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flex-direction: column;
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position: relative;
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}
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header nav details a {
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padding-inline-start: 2.5rem;
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}
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@media screen and (min-width: 950px) {
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header .nav-toggle, header .nav-close, header nav.show .nav-close {
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display: none;
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}
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header nav {
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transform: initial;
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display: flex;
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flex-direction: row;
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justify-content: flex-end;
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position: initial;
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background-color: initial;
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min-width: unset;
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max-width: unset;
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border-inline-start: none;
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}
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header nav.show, header nav:focus-within {
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transform: initial;
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}
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header nav details summary, header nav a {
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border-block-end: none;
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border-inline-start: 1px solid var(--c-border);
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border-inline-end: 1px solid var(--c-border);
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padding: 0 1rem;
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display: flex;
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margin-inline-start: -1px;
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align-items: center;
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height: 100%;
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}
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header nav details:last-of-type summary {
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border-inline-end: none;
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}
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header nav details[open] summary {
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border-block-end: 1px solid var(--c-border);
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height: calc(100% + 1px);
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}
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header nav details div {
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position: absolute;
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right: 0;
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}
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header nav details div a {
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background-color: var(--c-bg-secondary);
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border-block-end: 1px solid var(--c-border);
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padding: 1rem;
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}
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}
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main {
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grid-area: main;
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padding: 0 var(--content-inline-padding);
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max-width: var(--content-max-width);
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min-width: 0;
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width: 100%;
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margin: 2rem auto;
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}
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nav.article-nav {
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display: flex;
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flex-direction: row;
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justify-content: center;
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}
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nav.article-nav div {
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width: 33%;
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text-align: center;
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}
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footer {
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grid-area: footer;
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align-self: end;
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background-color: var(--c-bg-secondary);
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border-block-start: 1px solid var(--c-border);
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padding: .5rem var(--content-inline-padding);
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display: flex;
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flex-direction: row;
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flex-wrap: wrap;
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justify-content: space-between;
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}
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footer div {
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line-height: 2;
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}
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footer div .mobile-hide {
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display: none;
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}
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footer div a {
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white-space: nowrap;
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}
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footer div a:not([rel*=license]), footer div .copyright {
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display: block;
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}
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@media screen and (min-width: 800px) {
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footer div {
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line-height: 1.5;
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}
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footer div:last-of-type {
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padding-inline-start: 1rem;
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}
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footer div .mobile-hide {
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display: inline;
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}
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footer div a:not([rel*=license]), footer div .copyright {
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display: initial;
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}
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}
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</style>
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<style>.hero {
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grid-area: hero;
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background-color: var(--c-bg-secondary);
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min-height: 40vh;
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max-height: min-content;
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border-block-end: 1px solid var(--c-border);
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padding: 2rem 0;
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display: grid;
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grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr;
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grid-template-rows: 2fr auto auto;
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grid-template-areas: "logo logo" "tagline tagline" "cta cta";
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justify-items: center;
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}
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.hero .logo, .hero .tagline, .hero .cta {
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max-width: var(--content-max-width);
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padding: 0 var(--content-inline-padding);
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}
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.hero .logo {
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grid-area: logo;
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justify-self: center;
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display: flex;
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flex-direction: column;
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justify-content: center;
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align-items: center;
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width: 100%;
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}
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.hero .logo img {
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width: 50%;
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}
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.hero .logo h1 {
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margin: 0;
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font-family: Comfortaa, Ubuntu, sans-serif;
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font-weight: 400;
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font-size: 2rem;
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margin-block-start: -1.5rem;
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text-align: center;
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font-weight: bold;
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}
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.hero .tagline {
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grid-area: tagline;
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align-self: end;
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}
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.hero .cta {
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grid-area: cta;
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display: flex;
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flex-direction: row;
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flex-wrap: wrap;
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align-items: flex-start;
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justify-content: center;
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width: 100%;
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}
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.hero .cta a {
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display: block;
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background-color: var(--c-hl);
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color: var(--c-text-on-hl);
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cursor: pointer;
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text-decoration: none;
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font-weight: 500;
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padding: var(--content-inline-padding);
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min-width: 25ch;
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text-align: center;
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margin: calc(var(--content-inline-padding) / 2);
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}
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.hero .cta a:hover {
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background-color: var(--c-hl-secondary);
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color: var(--c-text-on-hl-secondary);
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}
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href="contributing/sponsor.html"
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><span>Sponsor Us</span></a>
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href="contributing/development.html"
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href="https://web.libera.chat"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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<a
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role="menuitem"
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href="ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697"
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><span>irc.libera.chat:6697 (TLS)</span></a>
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role="menuitem"
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href="guides/connect.html"
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<img min-height="60px" alt="" src="static/img/libera-color.svg" data-proofer-ignore>
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<h1>Libera.​Chat</h1>
|
||
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|
||
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||
<div class="tagline">
|
||
<p>
|
||
Providing a community platform for free and open-source software and peer directed projects.
|
||
</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>
|
||
Connect by pointing your IRC client to <a href="ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697">irc.libera.chat:6697 (TLS)</a>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
|
||
<div class="cta">
|
||
<a role="button" href="guides/clients.html">Choosing an IRC client</a>
|
||
<a role="button" href="chanreg.html">Channel Namespaces</a>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<main id="main"><article>
|
||
|
||
<h1>Happy Birthday, Libera Chat!</h1>
|
||
|
||
|
||
<p class="details">
|
||
<time pubdate datetime="2022-05-19">19th May 2022</time>
|
||
|
||
by staff
|
||
|
||
</p>
|
||
|
||
|
||
<p>Hello everyone,
|
||
today we celebrate the anniversary of Libera.Chat going public!</p>
|
||
|
||
<h2 id="where-we-are-coming-from">Where we are coming from</h2>
|
||
|
||
<p>Exactly one year ago Libera.Chat was unveiled as a real time communication
|
||
and collaboration service for free and open-source software, peer-directed
|
||
projects, openly licensed content and collaboration. Starting from scratch
|
||
we managed, just within a few months, to become the largest IRC network.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>Starting from scratch, we managed to gain around 50 000 users in just
|
||
a month and a half, a number which has been mostly steady since.
|
||
With regard to channels we had roughly 15 000 channels formed
|
||
within half a month, compared to the usercount this number is still
|
||
growing, but the curve flattened itself a bit.
|
||
You can see detailed graphs over at
|
||
<a href="https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=Libera.Chat">https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=Libera.Chat</a></p>
|
||
|
||
<p>We also saw many communities and projects migrating over to Libera
|
||
from other places in the first few days, counting 250 in just one week
|
||
and 500 after a month. Today we are hosting roughly 950 projects
|
||
and communities, and that number is still growing. We are hoping to reach
|
||
the 1000th registration soon!</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>All these communites are quite diverse. Libera.Chat services are not only
|
||
used by major free/open source operating systems and well known, world wide
|
||
operating institutions such as the Wikimedia Foundation; we also have local
|
||
Linux User Groups, the hackspace around the corner hacking on whimsical
|
||
gadgets and liberating your hardware or someones scratch-your-own-itch image
|
||
viewer that call Libera.Chat their home.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>In summary we had a phenomenal first year and all of this would not have
|
||
been possible without many helping hands. So we want to send out a big thank
|
||
you for all the volunteers, sponsors, projects and users that supported us
|
||
since we started.</p>
|
||
|
||
<h2 id="where-we-are-now">Where we are now</h2>
|
||
|
||
<p>With the numbers becoming mostly stable, we focus on keeping the network
|
||
running smoothly, ironing out some minor bumps and improving our tooling.
|
||
Just recently we finally got infrastructure up and ready to accept monetary
|
||
donations, details can be found at <a href="contributing/donate.html">https://libera.chat/contributing/donate/</a>.
|
||
We are using this money to cover the operational costs of the network as well
|
||
as the administrative upkeep of the legal entity. These costs were mostly
|
||
covered and donated by our volunteers so far. Libera.Chat will stay a
|
||
non-profit organisation, ran by unpaid volunteers on donated hardware.
|
||
We will communicate our financial status and usage of donations in a
|
||
transparent manner.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>Transparency in general is very important to us. You can find our annual
|
||
report for our first year at <a href="annual-reports/2021/index.html">https://libera.chat/annual-reports/2021/</a>,
|
||
including the financial and auditor report and the reports written by our
|
||
three main teams: engineering, operations and projects & community. They
|
||
contain some more detail about the various areas and daily work of libera
|
||
volunteers.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>In the last few months, we have launched a Trust & Safety working group to hone
|
||
and organise the tools and skills we have for keeping users safe and
|
||
mitigating abuse on our network. The working group has already seen
|
||
enthusiastic involvement across our stafferbase and the group has been the
|
||
source of numerous compassionate new ideas and solutions to difficult human
|
||
problems, and they look forward to continuing to do so going forward.</p>
|
||
|
||
<h2 id="what-the-future-holds">What the future holds</h2>
|
||
|
||
<p>We are aware that the protocol we are using, IRC, has been around for quite a
|
||
while and had various features glued on over the past decades.
|
||
Therefore it is sometimes hard to compete against more modern, freshly
|
||
developed solutions in terms of usability or also features.
|
||
We are working hard, both on our software stack and by collaborating
|
||
in working groups such as <a href="https://ircv3.net/">https://ircv3.net/</a> to offer a more pleasant user
|
||
experience and IRC being easier for fresh onboarding users.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>We are equally aware that some of our tooling could be more open, more
|
||
usable and sometimes more useful in general. As such, we are looking to
|
||
continue work on tools and make further improvements.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>As usual, keep an eye on our website, our social media channels and
|
||
our source code repositories for news and announcements.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>We would like to conclude with another big thank you. Without our users,
|
||
projects, sponsors and volunteers Libera.Chat could not exist and would not
|
||
have grown as much within just one year. We hope that you are enjoying the
|
||
services we provide to our communities, and you are always welcome to drop by
|
||
in #libera for comments, questions or a quick chat with us.</p>
|
||
|
||
|
||
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|
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