Today in the increasingly unhinged pocket dimension formerly known as freenode… reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- freenode-smh · 2021-08-11 08:25 I stay connected there just in case some of my channel's people ever try hard enough to get back in (we have some cherished but infrequent fliers like that). Also to see what the latest nonsense will be. About three hours ago, the server I was connected to shut down, and the auto-reconnect resulted in, among other things, the following MOTD: > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * *.joseon.kr message of the day > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * Hello, World! > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * Welcome to > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * _ > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * | | ___ ___ ___ ___ _ __ > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * _ | |/ _ \/ __|/ _ \/ _ \| '_ \ > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * | |_| | (_) \__ \ __/ (_) | | | | > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * \___/ \___/|___/\___|\___/|_| |_| > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * Connect to us on: > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * Hostname: irc.joseon.kr / chat.joseon.kr > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * TLS/SSL + SASL: 6697,7000,7070 > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * Webchat: https://bnc.freenode.net > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * By connecting to Joseon you indicate that you have read and accept our > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * policies and guidelines as set out on https://freenode.net and agree to > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * be scanned for an open proxy. > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * If you are looking for assistance, please try: > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * #help - Help with general IRC and Services. > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * #chanhelp - Help with channels and channel services. > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * #IRC - Help with the IRC.com by freenode app. > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * Checkout some of our communities and services: > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * #freenode-bbs - BBS [https://bbs.freenode.net/] > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * #freenode-bbs-discussion - BBS Discussion > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * #freenode-jobs - Jobs [https://jobs.freenode.net/] > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * #freenode - Chat about freenode. > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * #anonchan - Chat anonymously. > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * Type /join # > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * Thank you for using Joseon! > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * End of message of the day. For those playing along at home, [Joseon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseon) "was a Korean dynastic kingdom". Presumably, this is what Andrew Lee fancies himself a part of, as seen by him signing his recent blog posts things like "[HIH](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Highness) Andrew Lee of the Joseon Empire" and other increasingly ornate iterations, such as [in the most recent eyebrow-raising blog post I discovered](https://freenode.net/news/on-power-to-the-people) in the wake of seeing the above MOTD happen, presumably posted roughly at the same time as the disconnect/reconnect. Fun fact: current global users is now down to 1,065. You read that right: one thousand sixty-five. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nav0n0d · 2021-08-11 11:31 Sad. Freenode was one of if not the only server to see an increase in users over the last decade. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thaalos · 2021-08-11 12:05 Now there is Libera for that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- stoatsoup · 2021-08-11 12:48 > [2021/08/10 22:16:41] * #freenode - Chat about freenode. They can't even quite decide what the name is, can they? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-08-11 13:29 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- McDutchie · 2021-08-11 17:39 Actually, the [libera.chat](https://libera.chat) user count seems to have exploded in the last few months for some reason... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- phire · 2021-08-11 18:34 > current global users is now down to 1,065 Freenode has worked incredibly hard to get their user count down that low. If lowering the usercount by that much was the original goal, then they would have been hard-pressed to do better, short of actually closing the servers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- foritwashe · 2021-08-12 00:00 Was just reading through some of those blog posts (https://freenode.net/archive) he's written over the past few months. It's no wonder it's all turned out like it has for Freenode.