Thank you, Patriots!
I wonder if the recent events here coincide with the takeover of Freenode.
Not sure on the specifics, but there was some sort of hostile takeover of the company by some rich Korean. Pretty much every open source project that used it is bailing to other freer platforms. In a nutshell.
I just realized how scared they really are.
There's been talk before that that subject would be one of their final salvos. POTUS Trump made them expend a lot of their ammo.