> …don't expect them to keep your empty channel with a pointer elsewhere intact. That’s how IRC has always worked, and that’s how open communities in general w

> …don't expect them to keep your empty channel with a pointer elsewhere intact. That’s how IRC has always worked, and that’s how open communities in general work. The marginal cost to Freenode is effectively zero, and the benefit is that users are not cast adrift without warning. Clearly Freenode is no longer an open platform.