They pulled out of that pretty rapidly when they realised just what a disaster Andrew Lee was going to be.
Took them a few days to realise their mistake though, so they still got to eat a bunch of reputational fallout anyway.
(source: told them it was a terrible idea beforehand, got contacted back extremely sheepishly when they realised I'd been right)
Mostly all of the volunteers did not support going into partnership with freenode. Thomas was one of the only ones who wanted it (and he only did it when mostly all of the tech team threatned to quit)
(source: I am a former volunteer at fosshost)
Who gave money to the clowns running Fosshost?
No implication that there wasn't also pushback internally was intended, my apologies for the fact that now I look at it again, my comment can clearly be read that way.
I kept to a generic 'they' because the communications in question were private so while I'm comfortable revealing they existed I felt keeping the description deliberately vague was only fair.
Last week this not-for-profit hosting provider announced they would be moving their IRC presence to Libera.Chat from Freenode. But the plot twist now is a new announcement made on Tuesday that they have entered into a long-term partnership with Freenode Limited and Andrew Lee.
They will be assisting Freenode and are said to be working on long-term plans around Freenode on the Fosshost network. Additionally, "In the near term, the two projects will partner to launch co/cross branded public and tenant-facing SaaS offerings, available BYOD or levering the combined network for DNS."[0]
[0] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fosshost-Freenode