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| This left us with four #bugs channels. | This left us with four #bugs channels. | ||
| ====== What about the bridge? ====== | ====== What about the bridge? ====== | ||
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| During the proposed transition, Callum Gibson started running a dodgy perl script to link the 4 services. He'd written this during one of the early periods of oz.org stability where the servers would often end up in split-brain mode (*.net *.split) with some users on each server. He decided to revive it in case new or infrequent visitors ended up stranded on a channel where noone was looking, and so that cross-service conversation could be had without needing to work out how to edit one's IRC config, yet again. | During the proposed transition, Callum Gibson started running a dodgy perl script to link the 4 services. He'd written this during one of the early periods of oz.org stability where the servers would often end up in split-brain mode (*.net *.split) with some users on each server. He decided to revive it in case new or infrequent visitors ended up stranded on a channel where noone was looking, and so that cross-service conversation could be had without needing to work out how to edit one's IRC config, yet again. | ||
| + | ====== Ok, cool. But which one do I join? ====== | ||
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| + | There is some debate (as of mid 2019) as to whether to stay on AustNet (where nearly everyone had already migrated anyway), or to migrate back to OzOrg (which underwent an eleventh (twelfth?) hour resurrection), | ||
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