<divclass="intro">The Pirate IRC network is an IRC network for the global network of Pirate Parties who use IRC as a communication platform for political discussion.</div>
<li><strong>2018-02-23</strong>: IP cloaking (umode +x) has been disabled for non webchat users. Unfortunately there's a bug/design feature in Atheme that allows for these cloaks to be easily negated. Vhosts are still available with HostServ (after identifying/registering to NickServ). To see which vhosts are available to you use <code>/msg hostserv offerlist</code>. To start using a vhost enter <code>/msg hostserv take copypaste.pirate</code>. In addition we recommend configuring SASL or certificate authentication for your client.</li>
<li><strong>2018-02-19</strong>: Please welcome AriMartti, our third Roubaix-FR operator. Ari-Martti is also from PPFI and will be joining Mikaela and Scoffa.</li>
<li><strong>2017-08-15</strong>: London-UK has been decomissioned. The DNS pool has been updated to use other servers and users should experience minimal downtime.</li>
<li><strong>2017-05-11</strong>: Please welcome Mikaela who has joined us as an admin of Roubaix-FR. Mikaela hails from PPFI and will be working with the existing admin, Scoffa.</li>
<li><strong>2017-04-20</strong>: <ahref="http://pirates.org.in/">Indian Pirates</a> have started running Matrix bridge sponsored by <ahref="https://www.hamaralinux.org/">Hamara Linux</a> that can be accessed with room alias <code>#pirateirc_#your-channel:diasp.in</code> on any <ahref="https://www.hello-matrix.net/public_servers.php">federated homeserver</a>.
<li><strong>2015-01-29</strong>: The Piraattipuolue (The Pirate Party of Finland) have moved their server from Lithuania to France. This means that vilnius-lt.pirateirc.net has moved and become roubaix-fr.pirateirc.net. The DNS for the old server now points to roubaix-fr.pirateirc.net. Please remember to update your clients.</li>
<li><strong>2015-01-13</strong>: Fletcher has taken over from Brendan as the admin for Sydney-AU which is hosted by PPAU.</li>
<li><strong>2012-11-24</strong>: Sydney-AU has been linked. It's hosted by Pirate Party Australia from Sydney, Australia. Brendan has moved from Ashburn-US as primary oper.</li>
<li><strong>2012-11-24</strong>: Ashburn-US has been decomissioned. The DNS pool has been updated to use other servers and users should experience minimal downtime.</li>