Reason to Stay on Freenode?

Posted by gorgonzolas on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @01:47PM
from the self-post dept.

I just created an account on IRC.com, and joined Freenode. Server tells there's current local users 1040 (max 2091), and current global users 9251 (max 22832). 15001 channels formed.

What's your excuse to stay on Freenode?

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Re:Reason to Stay on Freenode? by verdverm on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @01:54PM (#28131988)

Freenode is dead due to a takeover by not the best of people

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=freenode

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Re:Reason to Stay on Freenode? by techrat on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @06:44AM (#28140382)

> What's your excuse to stay on Freenode?

None whatsoever.

Andy's most recent coke fueled changes have rendered the burning dumpster into a smoldering pile of slag.

It's done. Over. Dead.

In a bit over 2 months, Andy has taken the largest IRC network by user count, by a generous margin (more than TRIPLE the next largest), and reduced it to something that can't even break the top 25.

Even Snoonet breaks the top 10.

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Re:Reason to Stay on Freenode? by dagsdgfhdgdj on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @05:54AM (#28140066)

> current global users 9251

now dropped to 1100 due to new changes at freenode.

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Re:Reason to Stay on Freenode? by cpach on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:37PM (#28134107)

I can’t really think of one single reason to stay on Freenode. All good channels have migrated to either Libera Chat or OFTC.

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