Hey all,

If anyone tried to get into chat last night and were unable to, it's because Freenode (who hosts the IRC servers that we use for chat) was under a denial of service attack. It was very widespread, but the Freenode staff (on Twitter @FreenodeStaff) is reporting that everything is back up and running pretty well now. I was able to log in through chat clients Textual and Colloquy and the Freenode webchat site.

I'll keep checking it today before re-watch and work on an alternative, if necessary.

Let me know in the comments or via email (author.angelita@gmail.com) if you have trouble accessing the chatroom.

Thanks!

(Re-posting this at my journal in case some don't get WCWU posts on their flist)

ETA : Update to the update - I was also able to log in using the Kiwi webchat site. Though it still has verbiage there about a DDoS attack (aka denial of service attack), their twitter feed is reporting that they're no longer under attack.