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Title: New Year, New freenode
Author: christel
-Date: 2017-01-03T11:33+01:00
+Date: 2017-01-03 11:33Z
Slug: new-year-new-freenode
+---
-Well, not entirely new but we are about to embark upon a spot of maintenance and some minor upgrades that could cause some disruption on the freenode network as servers are being brought down for maintenance, etc.
+Well, not entirely new but we are about to embark upon a spot of maintenance
+and some minor upgrades that could cause some disruption on the freenode
+network as servers are being brought down for maintenance, etc.
-We would like to apologise in advance and further updates will be provided by way of global notices and wallops, depending on what we deem necessary for the interventions concerned.
+We would like to apologise in advance and further updates will be provided by
+way of global notices and wallops, depending on what we deem necessary for the
+interventions concerned.
-Thank you for your patience and understanding while we carry out the maintenance and thank you for using freenode!
+Thank you for your patience and understanding while we carry out the
+maintenance and thank you for using freenode!