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Nah. I've seen much larger IRC networks run with a fraction of the officiousness and ornery behavior from freenode "staffers". It's not a general problem with
by ok123456 5y ago
Nah. I've seen much larger IRC networks run with a fraction of the officiousness and ornery behavior from freenode "staffers".
It's not a general problem with civilization needing "law and order" or whatever.
- michaelmrose 5y agoDo you mean that you had an issue with freenode staff and now enjoy their discomfort.
- ok123456 5y agoPersonal attacks are off-topic on hackernews.
- Macha 5y agoIsn't Freenode the largest IRC network by a significant margin? https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php
- pop11 5y agoClick 2005. Observe Y axis.
- Macha 5y agoI'm not sure early 00s IRC networks are a success story of light touch, politics free organisation.
- ok123456 5y agoThose same networks are still functioning with much less proportionate overhead. They're also much more technically competent. Look at how the different networks handled the cross-protocol exploit a few years back where a well crafted link could cause the browser to connect to irc and spam. Most other networks required a PING/PONG on connect so they weren't vulnerable. Of the networks that didn't, they were able to mitigate that within minutes to hours by either a simple configuration change or a firewall rule. Freenode was unable to do anything for months. Their solution was to rewrite their entire ircd and tell people not to complain about the spam.