What 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

What 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.