As of January 7th, long-term server apathy.mi.us.synirc.net has delinked.

Due to unfortunate circumstances blizzard.nl.eu.synirc.net has been delinked.

We will be upgrading network services during the morning of Saturday, 16 December 2012. Network services will be offline for a few minutes during this process. There should be no impact to user or channel registrations.

pak has stepped down as a member of the Executive Council for personal reasons. slushey has been elected to succeed him.

We will be restarting network services during the morning of Saturday, 17 November 2012. We are doing this to implement new functionality.

When services has been rebooted, NickServ will present a new command, cancel. Using /ns cancel, you will be able to drop your pending nick registration. This will be particularly useful if you accidentally register a nick using the wrong email address.

Our two new test links, pacific.or.us.synirc.net and twilight.de.eu.synirc.net have become full links.

Following network issues, Aden has delinked downtown.tx.us.synirc.net and will be applying for a replacement system within the next couple days.

atlantis.tx.us.synirc.net has been accepted as a full link. Congratulations!

We have also accepted two new test links:

• pacific.or.us.synirc.net based in Oregon, USA, provided by slushey.
• twilight.de.eu.synirc.net based in Germany, provided by schadowfox.

As part of our continuing efforts to improve service in North America and to replace delinked servers, we have accepted atlantis.tx.us.synirc.net as a test link, donated by noob and co-admin Danny. This server is located in Texas, USA.

Our webserver will undergo maintenance on Sunday, 09 September 2012 around 11 am EDT to improve website and webchat performance during peak usage times.

The server will be offline for about fifteen to twenty minutes. During this time, the synIRC website, forums, and webchat will be unavailable. No IRC servers will be affected. Network services will also not be affected.

Update: Due to circumstances beyond our control, this has been postponed to Sunday.

News for the past two months:

• abyss.jp.as.synirc.net was not accepted as a full link.
• madara.ca.us.synirc.net was delinked by the admin before the test link process completed.
• logik.nj.us.synirc.net has delinked. Its admin, darkex has become co-admin of nightmare.uk.eu.synirc.net.

Within the next week, our US hub will be moving to new hardware. Network services will be moved to the secondary hub while the move is going on to keep outages to a minimum.