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| Hysterical Raisins. The first #bugs channel was created on the irc.oz.org network by Patrick Kelso in early 2005. At some stage, perhaps due to the instability 2006, someone attempted to create a backup channel on freenode, being the obvious choice due to it's popularity. However, there were hoops to jump through in registering the channel properly, so it stayed as ##bugs for many years. This was only more recently addressed by Andrew Perry so that we had proper operator control of the channel. | Hysterical Raisins. The first #bugs channel was created on the irc.oz.org network by Patrick Kelso in early 2005. At some stage, perhaps due to the instability 2006, someone attempted to create a backup channel on freenode, being the obvious choice due to it's popularity. However, there were hoops to jump through in registering the channel properly, so it stayed as ##bugs for many years. This was only more recently addressed by Andrew Perry so that we had proper operator control of the channel. | ||
| - | In the meantime, after a second bout of instability and loss of redundancy | + | In the meantime, after a second bout of instability and loss of redundant oz.org servers, |
| - | Then in late 2018, it was announced that the irc.oz.org was to be shutdown. Admins from austnet offered to take over the DNS and merge the networks in order to minimise the disruption to existing channels. Most of the existing users migrated to austnet at that time. There was a group of users of the oz.org service who wanted to rejuvinate it, and so the merger never happened. Additionally, | + | In late 2018, it was announced that the irc.oz.org was to be shutdown. Admins from austnet offered to take over the DNS and merge the networks in order to minimise the disruption to existing channels. Most of the existing users migrated to austnet at that time. There was a group of users of the oz.org service who wanted to rejuvinate it, and so the merger never happened. Additionally, |
| This left us with four #bugs channels. | This left us with four #bugs channels. | ||