> TOO many bots log entire channels out to public html sites. This is prevalent in everything like discord etc but the degree to it in IRC is just ridiculous god knows what any of those 1500 bots in a channel are doing.
These sorts of bots are quite rare on Discord, you usually have to make an account to be able to see anything. There have been attempts at standardizing this (like https://www.answeroverflow.com/) but they haven't taken off. Public logs are much more common on IRC than on Discord.
> Freenode etc I'm sure iddn't suffer that drama much if any.
It seems all of the drama hit all at once, due to Andrew Lee's cocaine fueled episode in 2021 which caused hundreds of open source projects to leave the network within the span of a few weeks - https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af4...
Honestly as far as drama goes the whole Lee thing went pretty smooth. News of a takeover went through the network, most people went with a "wait-and-see" approach. Lee tried replacing channel ops, people got upset, Libera was already up and running at this point. Most channels switched without much incident. Freenode largely evaporated into thin air as both users and server hosts started leaving.
These sorts of bots are quite rare on Discord, you usually have to make an account to be able to see anything. There have been attempts at standardizing this (like https://www.answeroverflow.com/) but they haven't taken off. Public logs are much more common on IRC than on Discord.
> Freenode etc I'm sure iddn't suffer that drama much if any.
It seems all of the drama hit all at once, due to Andrew Lee's cocaine fueled episode in 2021 which caused hundreds of open source projects to leave the network within the span of a few weeks - https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af4...