Goodbye freenode

For the last month or so, the IRC world has been embroiled in drama over the new ownership of Freenode. Yesterday I was banned from Freenode.I’m not going to try to recap what happened in detail, but I can give you my overall perspective on it. The new owners started on the wrong foot, and then mishandled every subsequent interaction. At every turn, people feared the new owners and staff were going to do something malicious. Then something bad would happen, people would say, “look: malice!,”...