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Paying the staff isn't something that happened before, so I dunno about that. I am assuming none of the donors are daft enough to keep donating compute to this new "freenode". The community seems to be moving over to irc.libera.chat so regaining their trust seems rather unlikely at this point.


If you assume that none of the donors are daft enough, why would you at the same time assume people would become staff for free? (I'd guess there will be some for both though)


Because there are a lot of bored power-hungry 13 year olds on the internet. Even when talking about an old-timey protocol like IRC.


Freenode was successful precisely because it wasn't run by power hungry teens.


I'm not saying new "freenode" will be successful, just clarifying why I think that they won't have too much trouble setting up a new volunteer staff.


Point is he'll have to pay staff because he sure ain't getting any volunteers.




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