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+As many of you will be aware, freenode has been experiencing intermittent instability today, as the network has been under attack. Whilst we have network services back online, the network continues to be a little unreliable and users are continuing to report issues in connecting to the network.
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+We appreciate the patience of our many wonderful users whilst we continue to work to mitigate the effects this has on the network.
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