To improve our quality of service in Europe, naamio.fi.eu.synirc.net, based in Finland and graciously donated by k1, has been accepted as a test link.

Our newest test link, blizzard.nl.eu.synirc.net donated by bitmaster, passed the test link process today and has become our newest full link. Congratulations!

We will be upgrading network services to version 1.8.3 of Anope during the morning (around 11am EDT) of Sunday, 21 March 2010. The upgrade is being done to ensure that we have the latest bug fixes for our network services. (None of these bugs have been triggered on the network yet but it's better to be proactive about these things.)

During the upgrade process, services will be offline for a few minutes. We will keep this downtime to a minimum. No registrations or other information stored in services will be changed as part of this upgrade.

To improve our quality of service in Europe, blizzard.nl.eu.synirc.net, based in the Netherlands and donated by bitmaster, has been accepted as a test link.

Regretfully, CuttingEdge has to let aurora.uk.eu.synirc.net go at the end of this month and the server will be delinking then.

jon will be stepping down as the administrator of harpy.mi.us.synirc.net. slushey will be taking over the server and renaming it apathy.mi.us.synirc.net. slushey's current server, vision.on.ca.synirc.net will be delinking within the next week.

To improve service for our European users and to replace the recently departed twilight.de.eu.synirc.net, we have accepted link applications for two new European servers, aurora.uk.eu.synirc.net run by CuttingEdge and fjord.no.eu.synirc.net run by truls. We welcome the admins to staff and we hope that their servers pass the test link process with flying colors.

You can now follow synIRC on Twitter. You can see our feed at http://twitter.com/synirc/ or you can follow us by adding @synirc to the list of users to follow.

schadowfox has implemented a new statistics service to replace the old, problematic Denora service. To request a statistics bot for your channel or for other information, please inquire in #request.

Network services will be taken down briefly on Sunday, 11 May 2008 at approximately 1:00pm EDT to upgrade the software and replace the faulty AJOIN module which has been causing services to fail periodically. Network services should be down for no more than five minutes.

Update: Due to unforseen events, this has been postponed to Sunday, 18 May.