This board's IRC incarnation: gone dead? moved again?

Factual Questions
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Internet Relay Chat --> NewNet --> Join Channel --> #straightdope

… is a freaking ghost town. Yeah I don’t stop in often, and seldom unintoxicated, but even so, I doubt you’re hiding from me personally. Y’all relocate to a different chatserver or something?

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Hmm. I remember dropping by a Straight Dope IRC channel the last time there was a hamster explosion and people could only communicate through thread titles. Now that I think of it, though, I don’t remember if it was on NewNet or a different network…