Update 2020-05-08

🛈 vc changed the topic to: idk how that topic was set april fools i guess
–official IRC channel, ca. 8AM UTC

Now we just have to figure out whytf the servers are still down

R.I.P. the dream of ever having a reliable email server not run by a huge corporation


After he just finished fixing the servers barely over 2 weeks ago…

vc is hospitalized due to corona, and the feds took this chance to raid his servers again
–topic message, official IRC channel

It doesn’t look like he had any contingency plans, either—wrt 8chan.co: inbound email is broken [I have what may or may not be implanted memories of Fredrick Brennan tweeting about his multiple attempts to transfer domain ownership over to him. Can anyone un-gaslight me?], outbound email has bad DKIM and SPF, the webmail has intermittent 504 errors (though otherwise “works”); and the “Status” server is outright dead.

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