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I mean freenode was already in a slow death before. This just seems to have speed it up.

What was slow death about it? It was quite active, and had a huge number of popular and quite active channels across a range of technical topics.

It wasn't Discord/Slack/etc, but for an awful lot of people on it, that was a feature. Text. Lightweight. Simple. Doesn't require a bloody Electron app with hundreds of megabytes of memory to connect.

I believe they're referring to when rasengan originally stabbed it in the gut as the start of the slow death, at least that would be my reading.

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