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Click 2005. Observe Y axis.

• Macha 5y ago
  I'm not sure early 00s IRC networks are a success story of light touch, politics free organisation.
  • ok123456 5y ago
    Those 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.