Hi all,
On Friday, 2/5/16, we'll be updating the chat software to Unrealircd 4 from Unrealircd 3. We don't expect any difficulties and the overall downtime should be short.
If you have trouble connecting, try using /server chat1.koach.com since that server will have the shortest down time.
Hopefully, this upgrade will help with the long ping timeouts we've been experiencing.
If you have questions, please ask.
Koach