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The recent resignation letters indicate they have become aware of how much technical control the owner has and intends to exercise. Edit: that said, I was unaw
by macksd 5y ago
The recent resignation letters indicate they have become aware of how much technical control the owner has and intends to exercise.
Edit: that said, I was unaware of the statements from Lee that are linked to by an arstechnica article linked elsewhere in the comments. Honestly really not sure who to believe. For all I know (which is nothing first hand) this could be another group sabotaging things to boost their own new network over personal disagreement. Which I'm not suggesting is the case, but as someone not personally involved, all I see is conflicting hearsay.
- rubin55 5y agoTotally agree with that. But that "other group" needs about the highest level of ops you can get (i.e., staff level). When your new Andrew-approved staff then starts de-opping ops in ~700 channels, sets up a new #freenode-services channel where you can beg to get your ops back, where they first tell you NO because the channel that was previously yours violates some new instated FreeNode policy which prohibits referencing via topic (and including talking about?) other networks like Libera.. That's when people on all sides pack up shop and leave.
- macksd 5y agoWell I don't even know what "de-opping ops" means, so I'll err on the side of believing commenters on Hacker News (and I know that sounds sarcastic but that really is the better source to tip the scales here, IMO). Especially comments in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27287750 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27287750.
- ev1 5y agoremoval of per-channel staff/per-channel owners and replacement with network owners. like removing a subreddit's creator/moderators and taking over it.