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Welcome to the Moofspeak IRC Network. Created as a collaboration between two pre-existing networks, our primary focus is Mac-centric channels. However, we welcome anyone who wants a stable and non-political home for their channel.

Our network consists of around 10 client servers and a full set of services.

Unlike large networks, we have the same sense of community and selflessly helping others that you find almost all the way through the Mac enthusiast community. Don't hesitate at any time to drop into #Moofspeak and/or msg one of us if you have any queries.

IRCd and Services move.

Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Moofspeak has, since its conception, used UnrealIRCd and Anope for it's IRC daemon and services respectively. However, while feature rich, there has been considerable uncertainty about the stability of both. After some investigation, we've decided to switch the network over to using the Charybdis IRCd and matching Atheme services. Charybdis, for starters, compiles 100% cleanly and though not so relevant to our small network, performs far better than Unreal.

Our plan for the changeover will be in three stages:

The first is that approximately half our servers will be taken offline (and out of DNS), set up and tested. This is happening now.
The second stage will be that services are locked and exported from Anope into Atheme and the DNS switched over to the new net. This will be done on a single day.
The third stage will be setting up the remainder of the servers after people have moved across while we help people with transition questions.

The new IRCd and Services, while essentially the same functionally as what we're using now, do have some differences. I hope to write a guide with frequently asked questions in time for the actual change-over day. Most importantly though, user and channel settings will be preserved, so you'll be able to connect and log in as usual.

During the transition it's very important that you only connect to IRC.MOOFSPEAK.NET and not any of the individual servers. If you've set your client to use a particular server, please set it to use the main address as both servers and IP addresses will be changing.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 22 July 2008 )

New better web chat

Tuesday, 22 April 2008

Courtesy of Mibbit.com, we now have a considerably better web chat system, replacing the old and crappy pjirc Java chat. Not only is it more reliable and better looking, but you can resize the window and has proper tabs for each channel. Let us know what you think in our poll.

Channel owners: You'll notice web chat users appear as This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Make sure that your ops do NOT ban *!Mibbit@* in your channel or your members wont be able to use the web chat.

Update: I've changed a few of the default settings for the web chat so it works a bit more like a real IRC client. For some reason, the default settings which included these features were not being enabled as expected.

Update 2: Mac users must be using at least Safari 3.0 to use the web chat. Safari 2.0 will not work!

Last Updated ( Monday, 19 May 2008 )

Vhosts

Monday, 03 March 2008
If you weren't already aware, you can request a custom "vhost" for your nickname (after you've registered with NickServ) which will turn: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it into something better looking, such as: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Well, maybe not that, but whatever you want after the "@" can be requested. Just type this: /msg hostserv request whatever.vhost.you.want. The only limitations are, it must have one full-stop in there. If you aren't yet registered with NickServ, for information, see this guide.
Last Updated ( Monday, 03 March 2008 )