[immibis]

Look what happened to freenode: everyone just migrated to exactly the same thing but without the crazy guy or the trademark. WPEngine could fork WordPress, call it WPEngine, they're probably already halfway done scraping the plugin repository.

[johannes1234321]

Freenodenis/was a small thing used by quite technical people. WordPress is very different.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode#/media/File%3AIRC_t... - this shows 100k Users before the fall and libera taking over about half of them.

[type0]

freenode wasn't a software project, infrastructure - yes, community - yes, but there's no wordpress community without the software