Topic: New admins, features and all that

Hello comrades!

Ahh, it's been a while since my last post. As some of you may know, I've been fairly busy lately and haven't been able to pay as much attention to devio.us as I would like. Hopefully this will change in the near future, but that is yet to be determined; thankfully, we have quite a few active admins who are around to help keep an order on the servers and in the #devious channel (thanks guys!).

So, firstly - we have a brand new admin; if you've been hanging out on IRC, it is most likely that you are very well aware of him - brycec. Bryce has been already helping us with account approvals (and mostly denials) and it seems that it was the right time to add him to the wheel roster. Congrats buddy :-)

Bryce will also be helping with setting up our premium server - badger.devio.us. We know, we've promised that its going to be setup already months ago, but things happen - life, work and all that jazz. Forgive us. We are pretty sure though that this time it will happen pretty soon. For those of you not in the 'know' - badger is supposed to be our 'premium' only box. Users who get upgraded to a premium account will be automatically moved to this other (less crowded) server.

We are hoping to implement a few other things with badger including a backup MX and a failover webserver, so we can communicate outages more effectively. (It is already serving as our slave NS).

Lastly, we are planning on adding faux IPv6 connectivity for both wolfman and badger. Faux as in, tunneled, however this should please those of you who would like _any_ sort of IPv6 connectivity (native or not).

That's about it - come hang out with us on irc.freenode.net #devious