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One month of pissnet

FOR IMMEDIATE PISSING - PISSNET IRC NETWORK

Well it has been like a month here. Pissnet is the fastest growing anarchist[1] network with over 100 servers and opers. Who knew you could create a network like this in a few days.

Building up an IRC network to this scale in this short a time period has been a tough challenge, but also incredibly rewarding.
It would not have been possible without the kind users with an interest in the PISS community.

We have had a very eventful month. Our first month 42,552+[8](might not be accurate) G-Lines have been issued at the time of this blog post. We even juped a few disruptive servers.

Pissnet takes de-centralization very seriously. The network topography is nothing but beautiful chaos, with just 16 servers crossing the Atlantic Ocean alone[10].

The network has a wide variety of hardware, 108 servers on x86_64, 12 on arm64, 1 on ppc64le, 1 on s390x, and a few other architectures[9].
The OS's are a variety with the majority being linux based, and a single server running Windows[9].
We use various versions of UnrealIRCd 5.x, with some of us running directly from git[9].

Pissnet has been providing free QA testing for UnrealIRCd.
Pissnet has found multiple bugs[2][3][5][6] and many more. Including two major desync bugs the network has experienced since the creation of the network[4][7].



Reference:

[1]  - https://twitter.com/Unreal_IRCd/status/1401794225533067268
[2]  - https://bugs.unrealircd.org/view.php?id=5906
[3]  - https://bugs.unrealircd.org/view.php?id=5913
[4]  - https://bugs.unrealircd.org/view.php?id=5916
[5]  - https://bugs.unrealircd.org/view.php?id=5925
[6]  - https://bugs.unrealircd.org/view.php?id=5926
[7]  - https://bugs.unrealircd.org/view.php?id=5934
[8]  - kindone@laptop:~/.znc/users/KindOne/networks/pissnet/moddata/log$ grep -i "Expiring G-Line (" *.* | wc -l
[9]  - https://shitposting.space/stats
[10] - https://shitposting.space/map