On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 11:06 AM anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> wrote:

I like how silently is Freenode being buried. Reminds my of my beloved
Belarus. So, what is the reason?

a quick google reveals many articles which explain what happened to freenode and why many projects decided to migrate to another IRC server. One of such articles is for example this: https://fosspost.org/freenode-collapse/

On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 10:47 PM Antonio Cuni <anto.cuni@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Following the example of many other FOSS projects, the PyPy team has decided to move its official #pypy IRC channel from Freenode to Libera.Chat: irc://irc.libera.chat/hpy
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> The core devs will no longer be present on the Freenode channel, so we recommend to join the new channel as soon as possible.
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> https://www.pypy.org/posts/2021/05/pypy-irc-moves-to-libera-chat.html
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