Freenode commits suicide, is no longer a serious IRC network

Re:Freenode commits suicide, is no longer a serious IRC network by MattGaiser on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:30PM (#27510957)

I have to wonder if they just wanted the domain name for something else, as they have burned everything else down.

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Re:Freenode commits suicide, is no longer a serious IRC network by rambojazz on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @03:15AM (#27512271)

But even then, was all the BS and pissing people off necessary?

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Re:Freenode commits suicide, is no longer a serious IRC network by swiley on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:32PM (#27510970)

I think some p2p tools used bots on freenode to cope with network partitions? I can't remember if bitcoin was one.

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Re:Freenode commits suicide, is no longer a serious IRC network by windsok on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @12:28AM (#27511300)

The original release of bitcoin from satoshi used the #bitcoin channel on freenode to find peers to connect to, this has long since changed though.

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