[talk] IRC status

[Raul Cuza]

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On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 11:13 PM George Rosamond <
george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:

> FYI, freenode #nycbug is officially dead.  This is from earlier:
>
> 02:57 --> freenodecom (~com at freenode/staff) has joined #nycbug
> 02:57 -- Mode #nycbug [+o freenodecom] by freenodecom
> 02:57 -- freenodecom has changed topic for #nycbug from "Get on
> irc.libera.chat #nycbug now" to "This channel has moved to ##nycbug. The
> topic is in violation of freenode policy: https://freenode.net/policies"
> 02:57 @freenodecom This channel has been reopened with respect to the
> communities and new users. The topic is in violation of freenode policy:
> https://freenode.net/policies
> 02:57 -- Mode #nycbug [-ov gman999 gman999] by freenodecom
>
> IOW, their staff bot joined, gave themself ops, took offense to our
> topic of "we're migrating to libera and declared that it violated
> freenode policies, reopened as ##nycbug and took away from ops AND voice
> bits.. and any other users. And now you need an invite to join #nycbug.
>
> We're all on irc.libera.chat #nycbug.  Same thing happened with #metabug
> and #openbsd on freenode.
>
> g
>
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