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Tell me what happened your freenode?

Discord is IRC's next evolution. Next generation chat. Good voice, excellent interactivity.

It has problems (bugs & weak beta phases) but after nearly 20 years of irc, i stopped my bnc (currently znc) instance last week. ~20 years of irc, countless bots, tons of good memories.

it is time to say goodbye for now.

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> Tell me what happened your freenode?

It shat the bed, just like Twitter and Reddit did recently.

The huge difference is that with IRC we were able to painlessly hop over to libera.chat pretty much the same day while a lot of people are still struggling to leave the other two behind. I have learned my lesson, it's open services for anything important.

Look how quick the transition libera.chat was.

If Discord went away no one can just spin up a discord server.

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