As there's many threads relating to the controversy surrounding Freenode, I guess everything about it has been already said. It's sad to see it crash and burn this way. I have fond memories of freenode, and especially the #django-dev channel. Before Discord or Slack existed, I remember as a relative newcomer to web development frameworks, it was an invaluable resource to me. This was a time when I think Django 0.96 w…
I rarely comment on HN, but I'm happy to come out of the woodwork to second this! Django was my first exposure to Web development also around the 0.96 days. I couldn't have found my way into what has become a career without the friendly folks in the Django channels. What an incredible resource for newcomers. I remember pasting full dumps of my models.py files into djangosnippets.org with vague descriptions of problem…
I think it was more closely branded as a "paste service for django community to use" than it is now, but I keep using it because it just works perfectly, without any captchas, ads, complicated UIs or other unnecessary fluff, the domain name is easy to remember and it's been up every time since around 2007 when I discovered it. Just paste, submit and share the link, and it always works as you expect.