What restrictive policies ruins your experience on freenode?
I use freenode all the time and have not noticed anything unusual.
Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
by frumiousirc on Friday June 07, 2019 @07:39AM
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When there is a connection hiccup (once every couple months) and you get tossed to your backup nick then, in many channels, you can't send. What's worse, you can't re-nick while still in the channel. So you have to /part all such channels, re-nick, then /join them again. Often I just don't bother rejoining. It's extremely frictional.
I literally just re-nicked this week without having to rejoin any channels.
Indeed, i can confirm i have renick-ed without problems.
Maybe you have to kill the ghost of your previous connection if it hasn’t times out yet?
Funny this is the worst possible IRC network to use - so many channels are overly restrictive which leads to a crappy user experience. The usual claim is to "combat spam" but most other networks (OFTC) don't implement these policies and have little to no trouble with spam.