Tvheadend

Just made my account today, and wanted to connect up to the recommended freenode.net IRC channel. I have a registered nic and am authenticated, but still cannot get into the #hts channel. Is this now a private or invite only channel?

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• #hts :Cannot join channel (+r) - you need to be identified with services - see https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration