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Freenode wipes old database and starts over
- Black101 5y agowould not surprise me if the company that bought Freenode was a shell company
- susam 5y agoWhat this really means is that decades old nicks and channels are completely wiped out! For example, my own 15 year nick is gone. A 150 member channel I used to operate for 14 years is also gone. All the nicks and other channels I was familiar with are also gone. I am not going to bother registering my nick and channel there again! Not worth it. Moved on to Libera Chat already and there is nothing left on Freenode to care about it anymore.
- fullstop 5y agoYep, my channel (smaller, about 75 people) was unregistered and now some random unregistered person is an op. If I'm going to have to start over, why would I do it on freenode after what they just did?
- java-man 5y agoOne possible explanation is that they want to erase all traces of some illegal|unsavory activity.
- techrat 5y agoMy favorite theory is he purged it all because he couldn't read the database in plaintext, which is why he would go through the trouble of switching ircds and services as well instead of just resetting everything he already has.