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So what the heck did all of this accomplish for freenode? I am not really part of the FOSS community, but this entire thing sounds comically absurd. They bough
by MattGaiser 5y ago
So what the heck did all of this accomplish for freenode? I am not really part of the FOSS community, but this entire thing sounds comically absurd.
They bought something, threw a ton of people off it, and then seemingly wiped everything?
- plantain 5y agoI honestly have no idea. But it's chaos right now.
- MattGaiser 5y agoThis is "I didn't like the tenants, so I blew up my new building" level of chaos.
- ev1 5y agoWhat'd they do previously, find anyone with a libera laptop sticker and throwing them + the contents of their flat out the window?
- plantain 5y agoWell, as I understand it they banned anyone using IRCCloud to connect to Freenode yesterday. IRCCloud is a free bouncer service that keeps you connected longer than the life of your terminal. IRCCloud seems to be affiliated with libera? So not far wrong.
- MattGaiser 5y agoKind of. https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202106/goodbye_freenode.html https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202106/goodbye_freenode.html Many more instances of that happening discussed here on Hacker News.
- blibble 5y agoI suspect this has been done deliberately before he "lost" to libera, which was only hours away this allows him to blame the "botched" migration, instead of people wanting nothing to do with him
- techrat 5y agoThere's a more sinister theory going around. >>>> so, what this really means is, he couldn't figure out how to get the passwords out of the old services database, and thus forced a move to a new one, where he can store the passwords After all, Lee DID say this: <r asengan@freenode> dead: This was a necessity. freenode was destroyed by the former staff. Why else was it a necessity to dump old IRCDs and Services?
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