[Doxin]

I wouldn't accuse him of having technical prowess. Pretty much as soon as the takeover happened freenode started suffering technical issues. Libera on the other hand dealt with the insane influx of users really well. There was some connection troubles for the first hour if I recall correctly, but has been pretty much spotless ever since.

[aaronmdjones]

The most difficult thing to deal with in the first couple of days were the occasional server crashes. We would have liked some more time on our testnet to iron out the bugs in the IRC server software we were planning to migrate to (and started out with on the new network), but that didn't end up happening. In essence, we deployed a beta straight to production with >10k users on day 1 and had everything ironed out by day 4 if I recall correctly.

[Doxin]

Well from a users perspective, for all intents and purposes it looked like you got everything sorted by the end of day 1. I vaguely recall some netsplits happening after that, but that's just part of the IRC experience on most networks.

Props on the smooth switchover. It could have hardly gone any better as far as I can see.

[jasonzemos]

Aaron did a really nice job putting together Solanum (https://github.com/solanum-ircd/solanum).

[aaronmdjones]

Solanum isn't my effort; Ed has done most of the work on it. I'm more focused on services (NickServ, ChanServ, et al.)

[Macha]

I believe this was criticising the initial operation of post-Lee-takeover freenode, not Libera.

[aaronmdjones]

I was responding to "There was some connection troubles for the first hour if I recall correctly", most of which were caused by incorrect ulimits (easy fix; change limits, restart ircd) or server crashes (not so much; investigate, write patch, test patch, deploy patch to half a dozen boxes, restart ircd).

[Macha]

To be fair, when you don't own your servers, don't have any contracts with the volunteers who provide those servers, and then they exercise their ability to stop providing those servers, that's more a social problem than a technical one.

[Doxin]

I mean that's the second thing of course, but sponsors weren't pulling out on day one yet as far as I recall, but technical issues definitely did start popping up on day one.