Just before 0900 UTC+1, there was this broadcast report of a privacy breach:<p>08:54 -!- ChanServ [ChanServ@services.] has quit [Killed (grumble (My fellow staff so-called 'friends' are about to hand over account data to a non-staff member. If you care about your data, drop your NickServ account NOW before that happens.))]<p>Freenode has a history of community communication when things go wrong. There has been only official silence on this so far. There is heated discussion on #freenode.<p>Direct links are broken on Planet Freenode's blog, but the article "Changes to the organisational structure of freenode" on the Staffblog seems related: https://spamcheck.freenode.net/ .<p>I worked with Rob Levin (lilo) back in the day, and I'm moving on from Freenode.
Mass resignations and letters about moving away from freenode to a new network in Sweden:<p><a href="https://fuchsnet.ch/freenode-resign-letter.txt" rel="nofollow">https://fuchsnet.ch/freenode-resign-letter.txt</a>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210514121343/https://p.haavard.me/407" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20210514121343/https://p.haavard...</a>
<a href="https://coevoet.fr/freenode.html" rel="nofollow">https://coevoet.fr/freenode.html</a>
<a href="https://gist.github.com/shadowcat-mst/998cea12794768bdb3da2daeff31baad" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/shadowcat-mst/998cea12794768bdb3da2d...</a>
That particular incident was the moment when the staff all resigned.<p>They had already seen it coming and had made preparations. All the important things have moved to a new domain:, see: <a href="https://libera.chat/" rel="nofollow">https://libera.chat/</a><p>Once the dust settles, basically what's effectively left to say is that everything that made freenode great will be renamed to libera.chat; whilst an imposter will (sadly) be left in control of the old freenode.net name.<p>The story has been breaking over the past few days.
Wikipedia has links to news stories:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libera_Chat" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libera_Chat</a><p>In a week or so, take a look and see if your old channel is back up on libera.chat .