business as unusual
I was waken up from a nap yesterday with a few news. The final news that Emily told me on the phone was http://www.mircx.com/irc.html. I shook my head, tried to comprehend what I just heard, and I decided it’s something I should jump out of my bed for. Yup. Much chaos seems to be ruling the fansub community.
Froth Bite decided to move to Aniverse. It’s pretty stable, and it’s anime friendly network. Or it used to be at least. Aniverse suffered from large scale DDoS last year as well. So we weren’t too positive about this move. But what other choice do we have? We just didn’t know.
Well. What do you know? Aniverse is no longer big enough to support the large community of fansubbers anymore! Within couple hourse, aniverse went down from the overload. Whoa! So much for that idea! Onto a new home!
Xepheus told me, over MSN messenger, that there are fansubbers on EFnet, discussing what should be our new home. People listed EFnet and Undernet as possible candidates. Undernet got ditched pretty early on, then Rizon was brought to the table. Then, of course, much chaos still reigned the scene and all. Personally, I stayed out of the discussion, and proceeded to take care of dinner.
In the end, to me, EFnet was just too different from the environment we were used to. Rizon felt much more like home. It looked like a few groups were already starting to move to Rizon as well. So that’s where Froth Bite is sitting right now. The first day seems to be going well so far. We’ll see how good this network will hold us.
Of course, switching to new network brings whole new set of extra works – registering nicknames, registering channels, etc etc… Gee whiz, I hope we’ll never have to do this again. Seeing how big Rizon network is, it’s hard to imagine it would die so easily. Then again, once the giant network, DALnet almost died too. Anything can happen, I guess.