Re:Goodbye Freenode
by iforgotpassword on Sunday June 13, 2021 @11:12AM
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Agree. It would have been great if the old staff and servers would have merged with OFTC, but it seems this wasn't even considered at any point. Nothing seems to have changed in that relation. But oh well, just another network to connect to until everything has maybe moved off freenode.
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Speaking as somebody who dearly loves both libera and oftc, I'm glad there are still -two- major networks for open source stuff.
The past couple months has shown that having too many eggs in a single basket can have unfun consequences, and my ideal future would be things being about 50/50 between libera and oftc so only half my IRC world is likely to be on fire at once.
Re:Goodbye Freenode
by abstractbeliefs on Sunday June 13, 2021 @11:33AM
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It would probably be risky to drag the only other foss-focussed network into the legal battle.
Andrew Lee has shown that he is litigious, so why expose another organisation to that risk?
Re:Goodbye Freenode
by iforgotpassword on Sunday June 13, 2021 @11:37AM
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Fair enough.
A clear instance of NIH-Syndrome. Besides, admins want something to admin... Moving to a new home and loosing your status as the guy who is allowed to set the rules isn't very atractive to most... And I even understand that. There must be some motivation to do volunteer work, even if the actual motivation is irritating when actually voiced.
Merging two networks is problematic. The same nicks and channels are owned by different people on either side; in this case the server software is distinct as well with different features supported.
OFTC as far as I know is much stricter about on-topicness and such than freenode was, and Libera is a fair bit less strict than freenode was, so merging the old freenode with oftc would've required drastically changing oftc, which I'm sure no one would want.