[junon]

Woah, been a year already. I remember sitting on mIRC for hours and hours watching the users flood into libera and out of freenode.

I will never forget how absolutely gobstricken I was with how perfectly the Libera team executed everything, and they were so incredibly polite through what has to be some of the densest chaos one could witness on the internet.

Really historic day. Happy birthday, Libera!

[GekkePrutser]

I agree. I really thought the whole thing would split and kill the community but within weeks after Libera started everything was as if we never left freenode. With some improvements even. Really well done.

Also kudos to the Libera team to not continue trying to fight the battle, after the first few weeks I don't remember freenode ever even being mentioned. They just focused on getting back to life as usual which worked great.

[junon]

That's my experience as well. Ample opportunities to attach a bunch of extra fluff to the whole thing and it wasn't even a temptation for them to do so. Very professional and expertly executed. I can't think of many comparable examples.