The StaticBox network has always cared a great deal for its users. That's why we are asking you how we can improve our irc network, website and forum.
You have been dying to tell us your ideas or suggestions for either the network or website, now is your chance to share them with us. Tell us what we are doing wrong (or right) and tell us what we can do to improve the network for you.
StaticBox has launched it's own Web IRC client. This client is based on the excellent Qwebirc client, and is accessible at webchat.staticbox.net.
As of April 6, we have joined the Janus metanetwork. Note that this is a beta thing at the moment, and we might choose to not offer it in the future depending on how things go. Here's the information on that, contributed by stitch.
We now have a server in Brisbane, Australia. It's server name is irc.staticbox.net.au and has no connection restrictions. It is administrated by nenolod and Trystan and runs the latest charybdis 3.1.
Unfortunately, it does not have IPv6 access.
After a long history of disallowing Tor connections on StaticBox, we are now allowing Tor users to connect via a hidden service: 4oldvxpwu4bw7e25.onion. We hope this will be useful to users in certain countries that have been blocked from being able to access StaticBox.
It has come to our attention that we have been banned in the country known as Poland. Possible workarounds while we get this sorted out include:
If anyone has a clue-by-four we can borrow to get this sorted, please let us know. Thanks.
Update: This appears to be some Polish government-mandated block. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?
Running an IRC network doesn't come cheap. That's why we would like to ask you, our users, to help us reduce the monthly costs.
By donating you are showing us that you care for the network. Your donations will go to the monthly server bills and other costs that come with keeping StaticBox going.
So don't be shy and shows us that you really love your favorite irc network. Click the donate button in the upper menu.
irc.meganet.us has been permanantly linked to the network. The vote concluded with 100% of participants voting YES, resulting in a majority being reached quickly. The server will still be in probationary status until August 19th.
irc.meganet.us has been linked to the network. It is adminstrated by betrayed, and has no restrictions. Provided there are no problems with the link, he will become permanantly linked on August 5th.
There will be two outage windows for Services in July. The first one is completed on today July 8, taking an hour or so longer than the expected outage window. This was due to a mistake made by one of SystemInPlace's technicians while working on the server which hosts Services and the primary US hub. These outages are to deal with a drive failure which is threatening data integrity on that machine; the first outage was to identify and pull the drive which was problematic, the second outage is to replace the drives in multiple stages to ensure that the machine is running on 100% new drives.
Learning from my mistake with estimating the outage window for the first outage, I'm going to estimate that the next outage will be 2 or 3 hours long. The date for this outage is not set yet, as it depends on how fast we receive the replacement drives from Western Digital.
If you have any questions about the network, and these outages, please stop by irc.staticbox.net #staticbox.
Update: The next outage is planned to be Thursday, July 31st to rebuild the RAID array. Thanks!
