Yes, that's 5 years! 5 years ago IRC idiots was born, around this time somewhere. No one knows the exact date because we didn't even start dating our quotes yet. Ircidiots started as a hobby project by Acidgame to learn how to use PHP (Hence the bad layout!). 5 years later it still looks like a hobby project, retaining the original layout.
But things will change soon enough, as we're not only celebrating 5 years and getting hammered doing so, we will also rework great portions of the site, inevitably breaking a lot of code and losing a heap of (coincidentally bad) quotes. Because, well, the place is held together by duck tape now (No, don't tear that piece off!). Let's hope for another 5 years!
Here are the stats thus far, because numbers always look interesting:
Total submitted quotes: 1,478
Total verified quotes: 1,090
Total news items: 112
Total spam messages dumped in the shoutbox: 1,791
Total size of IRC Idiots on drive: 892 kiB (excluding database)
Total database records: 5,322
Size of the database: 783.8 KiB
Real total size of Ircidiots for the mathematical impaired: 1675.8 KiB = 1.64 MiB
Crew size at date: 7 (With 2 being permanently inactive...)
Crew members having the potential to get sacked: 2 (No party hats for you!)
IRC Idiots BEST quote: #564
Around 2005 IRC Idiots went with some partner deal with Zelda Fan Game Central to provide an additional snooper widget, which in the end turner out to be quite useless. It still can be found here.
Late 2006 IRC Idiots was being crammed into a mobile edition, but an elaborate and costly study showed that none of our visitors had the need for it, including the guys who came up with the idea in the first place. The half product of this experiment can be found here. Though it isn't much, at least it'll show a bigass IRCidiots guy on your screen.
Speaking of the ircidiots guy mascot, originally it was just there as space filler, but became our underrated and highly ignored mascot because it just looked stupid enough to fit the demography of the site. It is totally not inspired by pac-man.
Even though the use of IRCidiots decreases by the day, it will go on strong for ever and ever and ever and ever! So what can you do to celebrate IRCidiot's 5 year existence? Well, submit quotes, rate quotes, have highly intellectual discussions on the shoutbox or just dig trough our archive of quotes.
lololzolzolzolzozlozlolol it was yoke lolozlozlzolzozlozzolzozzozlzozlozzlo. No seriously now, IRCI is more awesome than Chuck Norris, even when he is dead IRCI will still be around kicking ass!!!!!!!
It's time IRCIdiots closed down. Due to the ever-dropping submission rate, site activity and rising costs of the site maintenance IRCIdiots is going to close down after 4 or so years service. We thank you all for the great quotes submitted to the site and hope you keep IRC a crazy place to be. The site will soon be put in a Read-Only state and later this month it will be unplugged. Again, thanks for your time here!
Even though they're almost over already we're still wishing you happy holidays because we have to or else our image would be one of a non-wishful society that will go down in it's own premise. Yeah. Oh and we'll let you know when we wish you a happy new year.
Got two new admins in the team. They'll be one of them voters. Well... new.. one of them used to be admin before. Then he/she got inactive. Can't wait to sack them because of inactivity again...
It has been over 3 years since IRC Idiots was first released. Over these years we have achieved a member count of 127, with 949 quotes contributed by them. It is finally time that we say good bye... to IRC Idiots.. 2.3
During the last few months we have been planning to bring out a new and improved IRC Idiots. After brainstorming new features and improvements weve discovered that wed forgotten the most important part of IRC Idiots...
Our Idiots!
We need your help now! We need you to post any suggestions that you have for new features in our shoutbox. (As usual, administrative suggestions should be posted via the administration-only feature) Features should consist of things that would be good for all IRC Idiots users as a whole, and would benefit everyone. That means, a search feature for instance (By the way, dont request that Its on our list already!)
The admin team has been reordered a bit:
Due to inactivity NeoGeo-X and Minalien has been degraded to General Administrators.
Pimh has gained their positions due to being more active than the two of them.
And last but not least, Welcome Curtmack and Jessetyler to the team of General Administrators!
You can still apply for an admin position, please see the previous news article.
This week we will improve IRCI and add new features to make IRCI even more fun and pointless. If you have any ideas feel free to post the in the shoutbox.
Admins: Please shout administration ideas in admin-only.
Invite your friends, and crap. Because WE NEED MORE ADMINS. Fancy a luxory job with a car from the office and a double-deck villa? then SIGN UP NOW for the amazing job.
This just in:
There may have been some possible AcidGame sightings in the area. If you see him, be sure to give him a nice slap on the ass and thank him for IRCI's beginnings.
YES, it's UP. IRC Idiots is finaly up after a record downtime of approximatly 6 weeks.
If you are reading this now, kudos to you for not forgetting about it. Have fun again.
Recently, we've been getting a number of quotes. Some of which have been good, some of which have been bad. We ask that you please realise that inside jokes between friends are just that; inside jokes. Dont submit them, because most of our readers are probably not in that inside group. Also, things that were only funny at the time, we ask that you dont submit those either, because there are many jokes that, although you may not realize it, do rely on earlier events. Keep in mind that a quote has to go through a new system of verification. Admins cant just go in and verify any quote, only certain admins have the power to verify, the rest vote. If your quote isn't funny to enough admins, it wont get accepted. So please save us some trouble; if you dont think a quote will get through our staff, dont submit it. It helps keep the verifying quotes list down, which helps us get to other quotes faster.
We need more admins to widen the opinion given upon verification of a quote, making the chance to verify or refuse a quote be less biased. If you got that, nice. If not, nice.
If you're interested in such a coveted position, contact irci@lostmoment.com with your resume and reasons that you think make you fit for the job.
The server seems to be currently up again, for this we appologise. Well make sure it'l go down as soon as possible so you can enjoy a nice 404, or time-out.
Again, our appologize, sorry that we have to show the actual content meanwhile.
As of today, you cannot send in admin applications anymore.
We've got lots of applications, but picked only three of them.
Minalien, White and brethren have been selected as the new admins.
On a sidenote we hope all our current admins will become active again, as it basicly clogs up the list with inactivityness...
By mail i meant, email offcourse.
The address is irci@lostmoment.com
You'll get contacted if you're accepted/denied when time is propriate. It'l take awhile for you to get a reply.
Fancy seeing you here, we've had a rather long downtime because mallfuctionous hardware. It's have some moodswings meaning it'l go up and down sometime to replace our now primitive backup hardware into smashing new technology!
Some of our current admins are rather idle, so instead booting them we seek out a new admin who thinks he can atleast check in once per 2 days or so.
Send your proffesional applications to irci@lostmoment.com if you are interested.
We were upgrading the SQL server, and along that upgrade we had a database lose of user info so IRCI couldnt function as needed.
This however has been solved, and for other sites will be solved.
New admins! Inactive admins have been deadminned.:
The site terms have been redone and slightly updated, please re-read them.
Those already registred already agree to the terms.
The terms are stated similair to the old ones.
Incase you do NOT agree with them, we ask you to terminate your account at once.
When enabling cookies to automatically stay on forever some user status and settings are not visible, and you have to log out then log in again. So I recommend that you don't use it yet.
I will tell Da-Huntha about this as soon as I can and it will probably get fixed quickly.
I already gave a shout, but I want this to be perfectly clear.
The shoutbox is meant for fun, not for swearing and either is it meant for layout screwing stuff. Any errors or vulnerabilities you might find can be reported to Da-Huntha (or to me, then I'll forward it to DH), don't shout them in the box.
As you might have seen to the right side of this news item (->) we added the shoutbox . Altrough we're still working on it it's already useable now. Have fun
Yup, that's right, a BETA of 2.1 We're adding alot of new things now to improve worlds favorite IRC Quote site.
As you maybe noticed, you can for example vote Quotes now and we fixed minor stuff.
And we will promise you, there will be alot of more new things for you in the future
Thanks to william for helping me out with finding bugs, glitches and solutions.
IRCI recently moved from servers.
Acidgame, the creator of IRCI has decided not to continue his webhosting on his current server and gave me IRCI. So IRCI will remain on the lostmoment server now. However, it wont be any different, andwe will even improve it. We are now bug Fixing and revamping Staff.
We rolled over the admin team and are changing here and there.
The old admins are still there, but we hope to get some new Admins.
If you think you are a good Admin and know what you are doing, send an email to IRCI@lostmoment.com and state your nickname and why you would be an good admin.
Thank you to all of you who have added quotes to IRCI. Thanks to you guys, we now have over 500 quotes. Congrats to NeoTeo-Rex for getting lucky #500. Thanks for all the laughs, guys
Please don't double post servers on the network (except when they are redirecting to different channels).
Once you clicked the add channel button you wont see the channel but it will say it is added.
Click "Servers" again and itl be there.
Recently we have big quotes.
We don't have anything against it, but please break it up... like, if it contains 2 different funny parts, please split em up in 2 quotes.
Also please filter out side conversations that do not Influence the funny/idiotic quote.
And still.. big or small... no inside jokes please
As we all know, Mrbubbles is in approx. 80% of all the older quotes on this website. I would just like to take the time and congradulate you buddy, and welcome you to the IRCI crew. =]
I've added a new thing to the Servers page that tells whether the servers posted are offline or online. A real start so you dont end up joining a bad server. ;/ Anywhoz, thats all.
Da-Huntha and CPPrograms are now in charge of IRCI until I return. I will be working as much as I can on my mmorpg and will barely have time for IRCI. Sorry folks. CPP and Huntha, you guys will be incharge of everything, ( adminship, deleting ), etc. Anyway, Good by IRCI.
Extra Domain: we have recently added an extra domain to find IRCidiots faster:
http/irci.lostmoment.com
LostmomentSkin Error:
for the ones using the skin, our OLD webhost stopped working. we will soon convert the images to our new webhost (our own).
which means .css modification.
I have seen quite a few people just clicking the servers link.. I will be making it so I may see who is doing this, what your ip is, etc. Please, dont just click it..
Vbgamer's account has been deleted once again due to cookie steeling. Anyone who has clicked his link, beware. Vbgamer, notice that this breaks the legal agreement..
The skin bug still roams around, altrough we thought it was gone, it aint.
try going to the crew page and then to another page... you'l see you wil get style.css as skin again. sorry for the problems, we are fixing this bug.
Well, just today, I decided to add a new.. addon! Its called HiddenCode! You are to search certain places for codes, that you put into your Control Panel of the addon. The user with the highest codes gets an IRCI Non-Verified Account, allowing them to see quotes that havent even been verified yet! This game will be running for a long time! The addon should be up by next week
We have two new skins ( ff7 and Lostmoment ) made by DJvenom, and Da-Huntha. Enjoy Them! Also, the skin bug is fixed. I found a pattern that messes it up. If you see it again, contact me.
Some fine new skins have been added to be exact, 2 skins have been added.
DJvenom's FF7 site Skin and Lostmoment Skin.
Enjoy these new candies to the eye
People have been telling me they've been having some bad skin bugs, which seems like this will be a problem. I will try to fix it, and I hope I can. Right now, you should see 'yourskin'.css at the top left hand corner. This is so we can test and see how and why its going off like this. Thanks!