If you make it an example, I hope you point out how IRC being an open protocol (RFC 1459) is a saving grace for the Freenode community. (I feel that's not quite

If you make it an example, I hope you point out how IRC being an open protocol (RFC 1459) is a saving grace for the Freenode community. (I feel that's not quite clear from your comment). https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1459 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1459 The erstwhile Freenode volunteers would have a far harder time setting up Libera IRC as an alternative if it wasn't for IRC being an open protcol and how that enabled the emergence of existing open source ecosystem of servers/clients/libraries/bots/... In the same vain, FOSS projects who lost their home have a choice: setup a shop at an alternate IRC network, or start their own IRC network (self hosted). Which is still preferable to being wholesale forced towards adopting a different protocol altogether. Everyone still gets to enjoy the same affordances provided by the IRC ecosystem such as it is, that doesn't change. Of course, that doesn't exclude debating the merits and limitations of the IRC protocol in it's own right, or it's future roadmap and design. But I feel that's a separate discussion, removed from the Freenode diaspora: I would argue that the latter is a discussion located one level up.