We're going to be having several upgrades roll out in the coming weeks (I say coming weeks as I'm unsure if I'll be able to get everything done by this weekend).

IRC Servers
Our savior Phatal is back, once again sponsoring our IRCd Servers, this will mark the return of our TriviaBot in #trivia. Additionally we'll be introducing several VHosts and a VHosts page on the IRCd page here .

Forum Upgrade
UBB.Threads 7.0 is officially out of Beta this weekend (in fact you'll see that our Beta site is running the first checkin of 7.0 Final.

We will be running this upgrade over next weekend (unless I have the time this weekend); this upgrade will require the main forum to be turned off for several hours. Once the upgrade is completed you'll be automatically redirected to the new location (yet to be announced for obvious reasons).

This introductes several new features for us as it's a combination of both of Groupee's (formerly Infopop) UBB.Classic and UBB.Threads products.

You can feel free to "play" with the beta site here however it will be going down during our upgrade and will not return.

Rundown
1. IRCd's Restored, Services Moved, Trivia Back, new IRC Global Operator (Phatal).
2. Forum Upgrade, main forum down for the upgrade for the good part of a morning, beta board terminated, new url to forum introduced, redirect scripts introduced for incoming users/hits/search engines.

Please note that the news pages (globally over the site) will be temporarily turned off while we setup an rss reader for the new forum software.

Feel more than free to comment and let me know what you think or if you have any input .

I thought phatal already had globals.

BTW, since phatal is back, I'd like to downgrade my shell account with them, considering I'm saving up for the Wii, PS3, and associated games. I can bring it back on an 'as-needed' basis.

'eh he had opers but never was given his pass.

And its fine, i knew you wanted to opt out hehe...