Freenode ops take control of 700 channels

Re:Freenode ops take control of 700 channels by tgsovlerkhgsel on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @03:13AM (#27287352)

The new policy says "Primary channels are required to stay open. If a primary channel closes access to its users or is in violation of freenode policies, then it will be closed and forwarded to a topical channel."

So I assume that advertising Libera is not (yet) enough to be taken over. Taking over channels that declare themselves closed (and redirecting them to an unofficial channel about the same topic) seems reasonable, tbh.

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Re:Freenode ops take control of 700 channels by Ndymium on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @03:29AM (#27287462)

But they did take over channels that merely had the mention of Libera in their topic, no matter the context. Mistake or not, it happened.

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Re:Freenode ops take control of 700 channels by rekado on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @03:49AM (#27287601)

Exactly. #guix was not closed and merely mentioned that the community had moved to Libera.

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Re:Freenode ops take control of 700 channels by Ndymium on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @04:10AM (#27287740)

Channels that hadn't even moved were taken over, such as #elixir-lang. They only had a mention "Also see <channel> on <network-that-shan't-be-named>" in the topic. Well, they have moved now.

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Re:Freenode ops take control of 700 channels by kadoban on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @04:00AM (#27287674)

You assume incorrectly, unfortunately. Advertising libera.chat is enough to get taken over.

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Re:Freenode ops take control of 700 channels by ybloviator on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @12:24PM (#27292499)

Nope, they nuked a local user group's channel simply for having Libera in the topic.

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