it is highly disorienting and stress-inducing to wake up one day to discover infrastructure you had ties to for over 10 years yanked from underneath you
one can only imagine how much worse it's for freenode staff
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(yes, there was an advance notice, a few days, for the freenode to liberachat migration, but it wasn't entirely obvious at first what sort of action and how quickly will be needed, so it didn't help that much)
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Since libera.chat didn't start with a clone of the freenode data, I didn't really see much advantage of trying to move there.
If I'm going to need to spend weeks nagging people to move, might as well be to Matrix, where our new rooms aren't tied to a specific server.
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Going to try to get as many people as possible to move to our new Matrix rooms and then we can consider making a new IRC bridge.
Can't use the standard bridge because it requires moderation powers and kicks users for not posting a message for 30 days... not doing that again.