Network news & updates

The new "Chat with us" widget is now live across the site. Visitors can reach our team directly from any page — under the Contact button, or from the contact form. Messages relay live into our staff channel on the network, and replies appear instantly in the chat window. No tickets, no email queues, no waiting.

The bridge is built on the same infrastructure that runs the rest of the network — proof, in a small way, that we use what we build.

We've completed the full SPF, DKIM, and DMARC rollout for cosmicirc.com. Outbound mail from the network — including NickServ confirmation emails — is now cryptographically signed, and our DMARC policy actively quarantines spoofed mail claiming to be us. If you receive a message from cosmicirc.com, you can be confident it actually came from us.

This is the kind of housekeeping nobody notices when it's done right and everybody notices when it's not. Now it's done right.

We're opening the doors on CosmicIRC — an independent IRC network built and hosted in India, for real conversation. The network has been quietly running and tested over the past several weeks; today we're inviting the community to start joining channels, registering nicknames, and making it home.

This is a small network, but a deliberately well-run one. Strong moderation, privacy by design, no ads, no tracking. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to spend time, you're in the right corner of the internet.

Connect at irc.cosmicirc.com or use the web client at cosmicirc.com/chat.