What happened to irc.p2pchat.org
 

I woke up today and no server... Can somebody let me know what happened please?

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Hey Kaine,
Seems like it's down for maintenance. Though you'd never know without visiting this website & clicking on the 'chat' link. I was in the middle of a conversation & the server just closed. No global server messages/warnings to say what was happening or that it was going to happen. The only things server messages seem to be used for these days are to wish peeps happy birthday & game score updates from teams i've never even heard of (i'm not from the US).

On other opinions, Xolox is a great gnutella client & a very nice well-developed piece of work. But the gnutella protocol sucks at the moment. Why ? Because it seems it doesn't scale well at all, it works best on small networks with high bandwith. At present the network is clogged up with search requests, many of them old, leaving no bandwith to supply downloads/uploads. The switch to gnutella by Morpheus has exacerbated the problem, so this has brought in 'client-blocking' from some of the big guns like Bearshare & Limewire. Catch 22 - for the protocol to function in a workable fashion, it has to knee-cap part of the sharing community, so the sharing ideal suffers anyway.
Long live Open-nap.

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PS> Still waiting for a Linux version.

if i had known it was going down, i would have notified everyone. I too was in the middle of a convo when it just went POOF.

Because both the website AND irc were down, i could not even post the message on the website. I did send out emails to everyone on my contact list asking them to spread the word. After that, i spent my time trying to find out what was going on.

Im more annoyed about this then any of you, so mighty... give me a break. its a free service and we try our damn best to keep it operational. Sorry if this is not to your satisfaction :).
I guess if we had downtime all the time this wouldn't matter and would be chalked up to no biggie.. but i understand your grief since irc was up ~100 days w/o a problem. *cough*

edit : xolox chat back up? Dunno.. p2pchat is back up.
I'll keep all posted about xolox chat when I know more ( the chat within xolox).

Kaya, we all know you do a great job, that usually goes above & beyond the call of duty.

So, my previous bitch was not aimed squarely at you, but to those responsible for taking things down without any prior warning.

I regret any impressions I may have given that I was taking this service for granted, that is not the case at all.

Take care, and keep up the good work.