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freenode is the place where discussion happens. It is not closing. If it was, it would be equivalent to gmail closing.

The logs - depend on your stance. For what I do, no logs is better. Fewer logs may drive more people back. But here are many other loggers.

FYI, IRC is still very handy to have and deploy in 2020. It is light enough for a small VPS to handle, easy to scale by federating if needed, and the lack of file support and of logs can be a feature to keep everything private for in house deployments.

Just this morning I started to evaluate replacing some Javascript and Go code by some Fortran.

I'm starting to believe in the army motto: "Yesterday technology, tomorrow!"

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>freenode is the place where discussion happens. It is not closing. If it was, it would be equivalent to gmail closing.

And it wouldn't kill IRC. Projects would just relocate to other irc networks, such as oftc. Some new networks might emerge.