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Hi, I've been hanging out in the services channel, and the rule was, If you spammed (mentioned) the 'other place' then they murdered the channel. I mentioned that we had a duel presence on both networks and the response was if the founder/oper asks in #freenode-services they'll restore it. They're not officially saying it, but it looks like anything with libera in the topic got nuked (some channels restored it seems if they asked about it). They are saying it's meant to catch anyone being 'forced' to move (seems like the originally meant a redirect based on the freenode post but I guess mentioning the new network is 'forcing' in the bot's eyes). Points about current ownership, bots and admins not withstanding. On 26/05/2021 12:03, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2021, Joseph Walton-Rivers wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> The freenode IRC room has been closed by a freenode bot. Looks like it >> thought that #dcglug wasn't a FOSS/Open source related channel and >> booted us to ##dcglug. Because of the way the room was bridged on the >> matrix side (the freenode room was owned and operated by the bridge), >> it's effectively killed the freenode matrix room as well (it's now >> read-only). > > It was close/renamed because it violated their policy - which is > unclear but it seems that just mentioning a move to libera in the > channel topic is against their policy, so they basically shot > themselves in the foot - by effectively forcing channels to move that > they don't want to even try to keep anymore. > > This has happened to many other channels in the past day too. I've > seen reports of over 700 channels that this has happened to. > > My view is that since Freenode is now unreliable and unstable that > people should move elsewhere anyway. The reasons and motives of the > current owners and admins are still unclear to me and probably will > remain so. > > The log of what happened is here: > > https://unicorn.drogon.net/dcglug-end.txt > > So make up your own minds... > > Cheers, > > Gordon > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq