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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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I remember sorta kinda getting back into lulnix maybe 15 years ago? something like that, and being astounded that people were expected to ask and get answers on IRC. Discord is just an extension of that .
Oh yeah and almost all those projects on IRC got hosed by the Andrew Lee takeover of Freenode.
I'm curious about this...got a link where I can read up?
Here's my writeup
https://gerikson.com/blog/comm/Farrago-of-Freenode-fuckery.html
Thanks. This is pretty crazy.
Someone “accidentally” blocks a CIDR /16 block.
Haha. This made me crack up.
Ah thanks I was also curious, but not curious enough to ask.
this seems like an even earlier, worse, and faster enshittification than what happened to reddit, but nobody learned from it
It was super-niched, effectively no-one gives a shit about IRC.
I'm not aware of any complete histories, but these two articles have the gist of it, while unfortunately missing out on a LOT of the weird things that Andrew Lee said while doing it:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-been-taken-over-by-the-crown-prince-of-korea/
https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/26/freenode_irc_takeover/