purple.il.us.SwiftIRC.net fully linked

Posted by cursive on 2010-03-07 20:09:51 UTC

Dear users,

After a successful vote, the server purple.il.us.SwiftIRC.net has been granted a 'permanent' link. This server has proven to be a decent addition to the US server pool.

Please congratulate our newest server and services administrator BIF.

Regards,

cursive

Last edited by cursive on 2010-03-07 20:10:24 UTC

Updated IRCd deployed

Posted by Katlyn on 2010-02-03 23:47:31 UTC

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Hi,

Now that we have had a chance to test the changes made to our ircd software, we are pleased to announce that we have now deployed the new ircd onto the main network.

Instead of delinking, updating and then relinking individual servers over a period of time, we have chosen to build an entirely new network and have users connect to it. This avoids unnecessary disruption from netsplits, and means we don't run into any problems with compatibility between the old and new version.

We have updated the main round-robin and individual servername hosts to resolve to the new network. If you find yourself still connecting to the old network due to caching, then please try connecting to ircnew.swiftirc.net instead. If you are still having difficulties then connect to 94.23.157.150 directly.

A full technical list of changes can be found at http://www.swiftirc.net/ircd_changes.txt, but the main changes that will affect you as a user are:

Channelmode +B

Blocks multi-target messages (amsgs) sent by certain clients.

To use: /mode #channel +B

Extended Invex mode +L

+L ~#sourcechannel is now required to be set as an invite exception on the target channel for a link (channel mode +L) to be accepted.

To use: /mode #targetchannel +I ~L:#sourcechannel (note I is an uppercase i)

Finally, we have (hopefully) fixed the myriad of bugs and annoyances that have plagued us for the past few months, including the infamous 'fake direction' issue and the problems with idle times.

You may also notice that we have completed our anonymisation updates, though this should have little to no effect on your use of the network.

As this is our first news post of 2010, we would like to take this - somewhat late - chance to wish you all a happy and prosperous new year.

Note: We are aware that now having +m set will return the user the +mu message instead of the original one. We are also aware of +B being replaced with ? in return messages when someone tries to set it without the required permission to do so. These will be fixed within time.

Last edited by Katlyn on 2010-02-06 12:54:06 UTC