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Authors of our fates
Orchestrate our fall from grace
Poorest players on the stage
Our defiance drives us straight to the edge

Nobody got booted that I can remember. We had a chatbot for a while, which we discontinued because people were using one of its features to spy on the studio channel.

As far as I recall, the "public" channel just died out through natural attrition. I don't actually remember if we turned the server off, as such, when the studio migrated from IRC to Slack a few years ago.

(I did that because I was using Slack for work at the time and thought it offered some pretty significant advantages over IRC for our purposes. Knowing what I know now, I would probably have gone for Discord instead and then we'd most likely already have a public channel again, but I didn't, so here we are.)

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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

(On the other hand me and my nesting-partner use a paid Slack for all our household organisation and that works a lot better than discord in that specific context)

L.