What is Freenode?
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People who are insane enough to develop for FreeNode are notoriously bad coders who spend their days smoking meth. Almost paradoxically, FreeNode has closed-sourced many core utilities such as Idoru (though nobody wants the code anyway). The devs also are famous for forking ircd's into piles of useless garbage that only morons who know nothing about IRC would run.
Anyone who has a respectable project that wants a host for their channel should consider hosting it themselves or on OFTC, rather than use FreeNode's "services."
Ugh, I'm so sick of FreeNode. I'm moving to EfNet.
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An IRC server where lots of people in the free software (and I suppose open source) community get together and chat and help each other.
Its address is irc.freenode
=) freenode is a great IRC server
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