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Freenode has absolutely no innate responsibility to extend trust to a third party such as Mibbit. I see no reason to judge them poorly for failing to do so, or
by ankhmoop 17y ago
Freenode has absolutely no innate responsibility to extend trust to a third party such as Mibbit. I see no reason to judge them poorly for failing to do so, or how this reflects on Mibbit's integrity.
- swombat 17y agoFreenode, by their own definition (lifted from the google search result for "freenode"): Provide a friendly interaction environment for project coordination and for the support of community projects. Freenode, as a communication platform (and particularly as a self-described "friendly" environment) have a duty, to common sense and intelligence, to make reasonable efforts to encourage communication rather than stifle it. Being willfully wooden-headed about this whole thing is not just wrong because of the unnecessary harm it causes, it's also self-contradictory.
- ankhmoop 17y agoIf AOL decided to proxy interested AIM users to Freenode, would it be Freenode's responsibility to provide the resources necessary to support those users as well? What about Facebook? Google Talk? As a member of several "community projects", I don't feel particularly slighted (and am, in fact, relieved due to decreased abuse) by the disconnection of Mibbit.
- axod 17y agoDo you know what it took to get WEBIRC support setup with irc.mozilla.org? Rizon? efnet? slashnet? I popped in and asked. It's the same on most Networks. They don't have any responsibility to provide it, they can do what they like to their users. But I think their users liked it - which is why thousands of people used mibbit to connect to freenode. Freenode clearly has a closed management culture, which is why they want complete control of everything. I don't think that makes for a great community.