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> I fail to see a reason why freenode would prefer that you transition away smoothly? Retaining any user at all on the network? I haven't used Freenode in a l
by croon 5y ago
> I fail to see a reason why freenode would prefer that you transition away smoothly?
Retaining any user at all on the network?
I haven't used Freenode in a long time, but I would absolutely under no circumstances establish a channel there now. Not for some grand principled moral standpoint, but simply for not knowing if I'd get to keep it.
- immibis 5y agoAh, but you retain more users if you prevent the users from seeing that anything is going wrong!
- eli 5y agoHow’s that working out for them?
- croon 5y agoAnd they'd have gotten away with it too if it weren't for that pesky internet!
- imtringued 5y agoWhat if this is a sneaky way to recruit non IRC users to a new network? I'm saying this because I want to try it out.
- tartoran 5y agoTowards what goal? Most already useful stuff is going to libera but that may not be useful to you. What type of new community do you envision being born there?
- ethbr0 5y agoThis is a key point. People forget that IRC works like any other product: at the end of the day, someone "owns" the customer (in the sense of having the strongest relationship with them). In this case, it's pretty clear it isn't freenode. The actual relationship is owned by the OSS projects and their teams. If they kill the freenode link as an official channel, people shrug and use the new link. The entire calculus on freenode's side seems to be stuck in the 1990s.
- phkahler 5y agoBut the bet people to share knowledge will be gone. The channels will not be of nearly the same quality. People may stick around not realizing that, but when the usefulness goes down they will leave.