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I'm not up to speed, could you expand on what happened?

• bovermyer 5y ago
  See these links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27153338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27153338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27208422 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27208422 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27207734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27207734
• masklinn 5y ago
  Freenode was “acquired” a while back, people were looking on it dubiously. Then last week (or the week before) volunteer staff resigned en masse saying that the new owners were planning on taking control of the project’s direction. A number of projects using freenode for chat started looking at alternative just in case. As GP notes, this looking around was done in the heat of all the resignation, but was not necessarily a done deal for all projects, after all nothing has changed yet. Today, freenode highjacked / locked hundreds of channels mentioning libera (the alternative network set up by some of the resigning staff) out of nowhere, proving that the network most definitely could not be trusted anymore.
  • rasputnik6502 5y ago
    Clearly some money would have solved the problem. People don't like to be sold like a product
• gerikson 5y ago
  Here's a summary of the situation up until about 8 hours ago https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-been-taken-over-by-the-crown-prince-of-korea/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-bee... 8 hours ago, around 700+ single-hash channels were assigned to a placeholder account, redirected to double-hash "offtopic" channels, and their topics locked. Ops were removed too. The trigger for this seems to have been the string "libera" in their topics.
  • NullPrefix 5y ago
    Global Liberation Army will never recover from the Scunthorpe attack.