And I've heard of Jenkins, I've never heard of Hudson. So that's something. How long was Hudson dominant for? Freenode has been the go-to name for IRC (in FOSS

And I've heard of Jenkins, I've never heard of Hudson. So that's something. How long was Hudson dominant for? Freenode has been the go-to name for IRC (in FOSS circles) for two decades plus. There's also OFTC which I don't know the whole story of, and there are some projects making their home on Efnet and elsewhere too, but the majority of everything has been on Freenode. To the point that I don't even /list anymore, I just blindly /join #name_of_project and almost always land somewhere useful. This kills that. Some projects won't stay on Freenode and will move to Libera. Some projects won't stay on Freenode and will move to OFTC. Some projects will stay on Freenode. It fragments an ecosystem that was useful primarily because it was so universal, and the value of that universality is not conserved through fragmentation. I wish I understood the complaint better, so I could make a better argument for projects to move, and hopefully restore some of that universality elsewhere. But as it is, I simply can't make sense of the complaints without a lot of backstory I don't apparently have. For all the volunteers to walk out, there must be something there, I just don't grok it.