That particular incident was the moment when the staff all resigned. They had already seen it coming and had made preparations. All the important things have m

That particular incident was the moment when the staff all resigned. They had already seen it coming and had made preparations. All the important things have moved to a new domain:, see: https://libera.chat/ https://libera.chat/ Once the dust settles, basically what's effectively left to say is that everything that made freenode great will be renamed to libera.chat; whilst an imposter will (sadly) be left in control of the old freenode.net name. The story has been breaking over the past few days. Wikipedia has links to news stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libera_Chat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libera_Chat In a week or so, take a look and see if your old channel is back up on libera.chat .