In the late hours of last night, it was decided that GeeksIRC, a currently small network that has had over 1000 users in the past, but lost them due to unshared circumstances, will be merging into Infinity-IRC.
Why?
We care about our community, we care about the quality of our community, not the amount of users but, by merging two communities together, discussions will build, and get bigger.
How will this be happening?
It will all be done by the senior staff of GeeksIRC & Infinity-IRC. You wont have to do anything. The name “Infinity-IRC” will be kept. Services Databases will be merged, and GeeksIRC’s DNS will be pointed to Infinity. We’ll also gain one new staff memeber, Ryan Courtade, Owner/Founder of GeeksIRC.
When?
This will be happening at around 10:00 BST (British Summer Time) today.
Questions?
You may ask any questions about this in #support.
Many Thanks,
GeeksIRC & Infinity-IRC Senior Staff
Infinity-IRCd 1.0 has been released. All Infinity-IRC Servers have been upgraded to the new IRCd. You can download the latest version of the IRCd at http://infinityirc.com/Infinity-IRCd-1.0.tar.gz.
Pros of the new IRCd:
- Added /IRCOPs command. This command allows you to view a list of staff, and if they are available or not.
- Built in Jumpserver. No need to compile Jumpserver. The command /jumpserver can be used to force users onto another server. (For IRCops only)
- Added /sendraw command. Enables raw IRC to be used with the server. (For IRCops only)
- Added usermode c which strips out any mIRC colour codes from privmsg/notice.
- Added usermode m which disables CTCP Actions being shown in a channel.
- Added usermode M which blocks DCCs sending to someone.
- Added channelmode D which means no CTCP Actions can be sent to the channel.
- Added chanmode B which redirects banned users to another channel
Cons of the new IRCd:
- Unreal will not give support for an edited version of Unreal
- More bugs can be found in these modules
- Some of the error/info messages may not suit your needs because this IRCd was designed for Infinity. This will be changed in the future.
- *nix only. May work on Windows in the future.
I have enabled a module which allows a channel op to block a word in a channel using the extended ban mode ~T.
You can either censor (<censored>) the word or block the word/sentence coming out in the channel.
To censor the word use the following command:
/mode #channel +b ~T:censor:wordhere – For example /mode #channel +b ~T:censor:blockthis (When a user says blockthis, it will come out <censored>.)
We also have an alias to do this. So you can also do this command by typing /censor #channel wordhere – For example /censor #channel blockthis
The second way is blocking it. This means the sentence/word cannot be seen in the channel. To do this command use:
/mode #channel +b ~T:block:wordhere – For example /mode #channel +b ~T:block:blockingthisword (This will stop any sentence containing blockingthisword being sent to the channel.)
You can also use /block #channel wordhere – For example /block #channel spamword
If you need any help with this, ask in #support. Thanks.
We are proud to announce we have just enabled SSL on all servers. SSL is available with port 6697. Setting up SSL with mIRC is simple, you just need OpenSSL installing on your system. Some clients even come with SSL support built in, for example Colloquy comes with SSL support, you just tick the SSL box. To connect via SSL using mIRC, you will first need to download OpenSSL from this link and install it on your PC.
Next, restart mIRC and type: /server irc.infinityirc.com:+6697
If a box pops up warning you that the certificate is self signed, just click Accept.
mIRC should now connect to Infinity IRC via SSL. If you have any problems with this, be sure to come down to #support and ask your question.
I have written a report on the users and servers on Infinity IRC. Please see the linked PDF file to view the report.
Users/Servers Report Edition 1
I will write one of these every 6 months.
Henco
This weekend, Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer, on steam will be free. Fellow users on Infinity-IRC are opening a clan for this event and the chat for this, can be found on irc.infinityirc.com in room #mw2. They will give details in that room and maybe tips and advice on how you could improve. If you want to download Steam… you can download it at… http://store.steampowered.com/. It will run on Linux fine in Wine.
Thanks, Infinity
On Friday the 9th of April, Infinity’s own Henry Cole (Henco) will perform a number of crazy tasks, you ask him to do, if you donate £5. If you donated £5 to Infinity by PayPal and put in the instructions.. Dance to I gotta feeling… that is what he would do on a live stream. This is to raise money for the cost of our servers, and to celebrate the 6 months of Infinity-IRC! He can do anything, from licking peanut butter of his foot… to singing to Never gonna give you up! It must be suitable for younger viewers, though. All you need to do, is donate £5. Users that have already donated, will be able to ask him to do something in #infinity. This also includes, server donations. So server donors have something in mind! All this fun will start at 5pm BST (UK time.) Please make sure you can come to this event! We want as many viewers and donators as possible.
Thanks,
Infinity
It is official, the queen of England will soon be a Services Root on Infinity-IRC! She will be known as the royal staffer. She will be chatting from the Buckingham palace nearly everyday!… Also, on a more serious note, we are merging with Freenode. Tonight, at 7:00pm we will attempt to merge with the large net Freenode. We are looking forward to the merger and to having royal blood on our network. You can find her on Infinity-IRC as QueenE in the network help channel. Thanks!
The Queen left when we told her about the merge, and she wont be coming back. So we stopped the merge anyway.
Not really…
April Fools! From the Infinity-IRC team.
We owe a big thanks to MrZodiac for donating to us our first US server. The server is located in PA, US. No more lag for the US users! The DNS is still updating, but the server will be accessible by us.infinityirc.com and Modula.infinityirc.com. For a list of servers, and to find the nearest to you, please see http://infinityirc.com/servers/
The server is hosted courtesy of flahost.com.
Thanks,
iYorkie
Infinity-IRC now has a free selection of tools to use for IRC, including a quote database, irc stats, idlerpg and a pastebin for sharing scripts. We are still working on publishing all of our services or tools onto our site, most of our services are already up and can be accessed at http://www.infinityirc.com/tools/. Coming in the future maybe online nick and channel registration for all our users and maybe badges for sites, much like our topic scripts. We have also updated our site and added a cleaner and more exciting theme. We are also pleased to welcome Elijah, Zetacon, Luke and Corky to our staffing team, who will be happy to help you with IRC. Thanks for using Infinity-IRC 
