Recently we've been working on a couple of projects and we thought it might be time to let you all know what's up in the world of Thinstack. We've got something for everyone, just for you old-schoolers (and to show the whippersnappers how it used to be done) we've dusted off and fired up the ol' 286 to bring you a Bulletin Board System which you can find via the link just up there in the nav bar under BBS. You won't need a telnet client because we've set up a flash client to make it nice and easy but if you prefer it the proper way you can point your telnet client to thinstack.servebbs.net on port 9001. The place to chat about this one is #thinstackbbs on the IRC server. For the Web2.0 and new media dudes we're working to bring you an official Thinstack TV station, which will be available using the TV link (also up top) when we go live, if you fancy chatting about that you'll find us in the #thinstacktv channel. Ideas and content suggestions are more than welcome, just come drop us a line in the channel. We've enjoyed working on these projects and we hope that you'll enjoy using them too, but please bear in mind that they're currently both young projects so you'll have to excuse the mess, we'll tidy up as we go. Feel free to give us a poke on IRC if you find any problems and we'll have a crack at fixing 'em.

Hi all, as you've probably noticed, we just switched to a new IRCd. This one should be a better in almost every way than the old one. This news post is to document the changes between the old and the new: 1. Channel mode +q has been massively changed. On our old IRCd, this signified channel owner. On the new IRCd, channel owner is +a (your owner status will work correctly), SOPs/protects no longer exist and any you have will have been dropped to op status (you can put them back as owner if you wish). Our new IRCd has a +q as well, but it is to set quiets (make it so a certain user can't talk in your channel, but can still join and see what is said). 2. Channel mode +J no longer accepts a time parameter. The time is hardcoded to 30 seconds. 3. There is a new channel mode, +K, that will block users repeating the same exact message multiple times in your channel. This is quite cool. 4. There are also new user modes +C and +V. +C will block any CTCP messages from other users from being sent to you. +V will not allow any users to send you invites to channels. 5. Extban changed syntaxes: Most extbans work the same (z for SSL, a for account, c for channel), but the syntax is no longer: +b a:nick, its now +b $a:nick (in that situation). A new extban, j / canjoin has been added which lets you set a channel where if the users can join that channel, they can also join your channel. That should be about it. If there are any questions about any of these changes, please join #thinstack and ask a oper (who will have ops or above in the channel).

No, really, he was, he didn't cost a thing. Yes, we welcome the ever present Manuel to our crack operator team and we certainly hope you will too. He'll be right there with the rest of us to service your chatting needs, don't we spoil you lot rotten, eh?