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He'll have to pay the new staff, pay for new compute resources, and regain the community trust. Good luck with that.

• Doxin 5y ago
  Paying the staff isn't something that happened before, so I dunno about that. I am assuming none of the donors are daft enough to keep donating compute to this new "freenode". The community seems to be moving over to irc.libera.chat so regaining their trust seems rather unlikely at this point.
  • detaro 5y ago
    If you assume that none of the donors are daft enough, why would you at the same time assume people would become staff for free? (I'd guess there will be some for both though)
    • Doxin 5y ago
      Because there are a lot of bored power-hungry 13 year olds on the internet. Even when talking about an old-timey protocol like IRC.
      • varjag 5y ago
        Freenode was successful precisely because it wasn't run by power hungry teens.
        • Doxin 5y ago
          I'm not saying new "freenode" will be successful, just clarifying why I think that they won't have too much trouble setting up a new volunteer staff.
  • varjag 5y ago
    Point is he'll have to pay staff because he sure ain't getting any volunteers.