You may have seen a highly contraversial blog about 6 months ago stating why UKChatterbox was regarded as unstable. By the looks of it, someone saw it and took my advice.

• New channel mode developped to restrict ages/genders from channels.
• Moved database to a dedicated server.

Despite the performance fixes above, there are still some issues which need to be addressed before UKChatterbox can become as great as any other network.

• Ditch SQLMod. This module actually stops the IRCd when an SQL query is being performed.
• Ditch privlog and chanlog. These modules are ethically wrong, and can be seen as a breech of our human rights.
• Ditch m_restrictnotice. This module prevents users from noticing each other. As long as you have the right modes set, users shouldn’t be able to disrupt channels by using /NOTICE #channel.
• Move to a Data Centre dedicated to providing a decent service. Actually getting 4 VPS’s in the UK would work out cheaper than 4 shells from UKShells. Apparently, they need to have their servers in the UK for legal reasons (I can’t actually see what this reason may be).

I reall do hope UKChatterbox becomes the better network. They have so much to offer, but they go the wrong way. You can be safe without logging, you just set extremely advanced spamfilters. UKChatterbox have so much going for them, they just need to listen to people’s views and take them into consideration.