Cleaning and Donations |
First off over the next couple of weeks the bots are going through an intensive cleaning period. You can check the progress by watching the New Additions page. A huge thanks to the archive staff for all their work. I've also decided to shutdown Wandypot. We have another two new release bots in addition to Delirium. If we ever need her again she will come back. Lastly but most importantly, it's donation time again and we need your help. The 3rd year of anniversary of #lurk is right around the corner (March 25th) and we hope to be around for another 3 years. Whatever donation you can afford is greatly appreciated. And of course thanks to everyone who has donated and the awesome staff who keep #lurk up and running!
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| 12/03/2008 - Stalyn |
Christmas Releases |
So it's christmas. (Happy Holidays to those that celebrate) That means, for us, a hell of alot of releases. With the volume of additions a few bad apples are bound to make their way through, so, if you notice any corrupt files stop by #lurknet and let one of the OPs know.
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| 26/12/2007 - Majeh |
Donations Again |
UPDATE: We made the deadline just in time and with some left over for next month. THANK YOU!!! Hey just to remind everyone the donation drive is in full swing and we are somewhat short this month with only a few days left. Please donate whatever you can afford and to those who have donated thank you for your support.
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| 19/11/2007 - Stalyn |
Donations |
We had a pretty successful donation drive last month and therefore this month's drive will be pretty short. We only need about $80 to cover this month's server costs. Also thanks to last month's donation drive another harddrive was added to the main server. Oh and we have another New Release bot, Upgrayedd, make sure you try him out. Thanks everyone!
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| 23/09/2007 - Stalyn |
Blarg |
Well it appears we have lost both HardGay and Anikei|Manga. If anyone else is interested in donating some server bandwidth towards a new release bot, stop by #lurknet and talk to a staff member. Anyway we reached our donation goal for this month by a large margin. Thanks to everyone who donated!
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| 14/08/2007 - Stalyn |
Updates |
First off I want to let everyone know about a new lurk game created by Aelia, please check it out at lurklotgd.net. Also if you haven't noticed the Yaoi/Yuri bots have returned. We are still looking for someone to help update the Yuri bot, if interested PM Stalyn on IRC. Finally our upstream provider has bought some new fiber which should increase your average download speed. Expect more updates in the coming weeks.
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| 10/08/2007 - Stalyn |
Thelurker.net Back Up |
Update: Everything is back up running again. The secondary server is down due to OS/hardware problems. This server hosts thelurker.net, Wandypot, Underwhere, [UR]Dan and a bunch of other stuff. Hopefully it will be back up in the next couple days. Thank you for your patience.
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| 27/05/2007 - Stalyn |
New Lurk Logo |
As you probably have already noticed we now have a new header featuring the new #lurk logo designed by VANEEA. Look out for a brand new website in the future and a bunch of other goodies!
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| 18/05/2007 - Stalyn |
Donations |
Update: We met our goal. A big thanks to everyone who donated. The donation deadline is creeping up and we are still short by a decent amount. Now I understand that we've crunched donation drives together as of late which probably explains the lack of recent
donations. However the advertising money came in this month and took out a large chunk of what needs to be raised. The deadline is the 15th but we really only need to raise $699 by this date, so if we can meet that goal the rest
can trickle in by the 22nd.
If you are unable to donate for whatever reason there are still other ways to help out. We are still looking for new staff members to fill a variety of positions. If you are interested please leave a message on the forums, stop by #lurknet or just PM me on IRC. And as always we are looking for more bot providers. Again thanks to all those who have contributed and who will contribute in the future.
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| 13/04/2007 - Stalyn |
Mangajin |
I just added Mangajin to the Lancre bot. Thanks to hodman on the Lurk forums for the tip. Update: Mangajin v21-30 are now on Lancre.
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| 27/03/2007 - Stalyn |
Happy Birthday |
Today #lurk turned two years old. A major thanks to all those who have contributed and kept #lurk going all this time. And hopefully we'll be around for another two years! As a minor offering to the #lurk Gods we have pushed out an improved version of the software we use to run the bots. This will hopefully increase the average download speed. In order to test and fine-tune the code we launched a clone of Neverwhere called Betawhere. Please use this bot as much as possible in order to stress test the code and therefore accelerate the transfer of the major archive bots to the newer software. Thanks.
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| 25/03/2007 - Stalyn |
Network Update |
It appears that the recent network maintenance has resolved the networking issues plaguing our provider. Everything should be back to normal now. Just a reminder, please use the New Release bots when downloading recent releases. This will alleviate the processing strain on the archive bots.
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| 21/03/2007 - Stalyn |
Move Complete |
The move is complete, it took longer than expected but that's how things go sometimes. Thank you everyone for being patient and thanks to the donators who contributed. Also don't forget the donation drive is still going on to cover the costs of the secondary server.
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| 16/03/2007 - Stalyn |
Important Announcement |
I'm sure many of you have noticed that the bots have been slower recently. Please read this detailed post at the Lurk Forums that explains our current bandwidth situation.
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| 25/02/2007 - Stalyn |
A Moment Aside |
Hi, I hope everyone had a good holidays. Now recently I've noticed and probably you have as well that there has been an influx of new lurkers. Which I personally think is great since #lurk is community driven and therefore the larger the community the greater the overall lurkiness. So I'd thought it'd be a good idea to break things down for the new lurkers or even for those who are unaware of the mightiness of #lurk.
The current archive is 400+ GBs and monthly we transfer outgoing (the lurker servers to you) about 20+ TBs (terabyte or 1000 GBs). That means we on average transfer the entire archive about 50 times over a month. Let me remind again this is outgoing. I know many of you could probably download perhaps a TB or two in a month. But can you upload it? Maybe think of it this way, imagine having a 400 GB harddrive filled with data and uploading it to someone 50 times a month.
So anyway let me remind you that we are in a donation drive which is a monthly thing (from the 5th of the month to the 20th). The current server costs are entirely appropriate for the usage I just described. Also considering if perhaps 50% of the active users donated a few dollars each we�d be able to run for 6 months or so. So I hope this has been informative. And now you know and knowing is half the battle.
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| 12/01/2007 - Stalyn |
| The Future |
Well, thanks to everyone's help, we've had another successful donation drive. We've also seen a few more people offer to help out, which is wonderful.
In other news, as a result of things going on in my personal life (I actually I have one, I'm amazed to learn), I've decided to step down as the leader of #lurk. It's a decision I've been considering for some time now (as a few of you may be aware). What does this mean for the channel? Well, Stalyn has agreed to take over everything so you probably won't notice any changes in the beginning (though he may choose to run things differently). The channel, the website, and all the bots will still be around, so no worries. And I'll still be wandering around for awhile to help with the transition and maybe after, to help keep sane while being trapped in this country.
It has been fun looking after the bots the last two years. Lots of fond memories (and plenty of less pleasant ones as well). But everyone has to move on eventually. And I'm getting too old for this, I think.
So thanks again everyone for your continued support. And I'll see you out there.
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| 20/12/2006 - VicariousLurker |
