Former staffers have launched Libera Chat. Clearly, we haven’t heard the last of this story. In the meantime, former Freenode staffers have started a new IRC network they’re calling Libera Chat.

IRC servers don’t run themselves, and Freenode’s admins fought and won an epic battle with spammers a couple years back.

ORIGINAL STORY: Dozens of organizations and projects continue to move away from the popular Freenode IRC chat network, which has long been synonymous with open source projects.

https://libera.chat/about Of course, Freenode used to have a parent organization, the Peer-Directed Projects Center (PDPC), but it was dissolved in 2013: ...

Freenode, the open-source project that powers Internet Relay Chat (IRC) networks, is involved in the most recent scandal after some of its developers quickly called it quits for the org.

The management volunteer team of 'freenode ', the world's largest IRC network , has withdrawn from freenode because the ownership of the network has been hijacked and opened a new 'Libera Chat ...