Mirc.net
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mIRC.net is an mIRC related website. It provides mIRC scripts, addons, tutorials, an online forum, screenshots of its users and of scripts, as well as some tools such as a Pastebin and list of IRC Raws. It also provides IRC news. It is one of the popular mIRC related websites.
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[edit] History
The domain name was originally not used for anything. The current domain owner, Marcus Lindgren (aka 'magic'), knew that the domain was soon set to expire and so watched for it regularly. In 1997 mirc.net finally fell into the ownership of magic. It so happened that there were negotiations going on between the current owner and another IRC user that magic was not aware of, it involved the current owner handing over the ownership of the domain once it expired to another user who was prepared to buy it, but magic intercepted unwittingly.
The site started off as a simple script archive and had a forum. A couple of people joined the mIRC.net Team and helped code the site some more. Magic soon lost interest in the site, the other team members left for their own reasons. Due to a hard drive crash all scripts were lost. The site changed its stance and became a hub for tutorials and articles rather than scripts.
In 2002, magic met Mark Cilia-Vincenti (aka 'MUTU'), and merged with his website irc-resource.com. They used a PHP-Nuke portal and updated all the files. MUTU started a news section on the site.
In 2003, magic and MUTU started to discuss the possibility of rewriting the website and what direction to take it in. At this time the site was still low traffic in comparison to other sites. Soon enough though, Arkadiy Kulyov (aka 'ethaniel') contacted magic in the hope of merging his website irctools.com with mirc.net. This was agreed upon in June 2003, where ethaniel kept the irctools.com design and started to code the site.
Ethaniel soon enough disappeared from mIRC.net and left an almost seriously buggy website, often pages didn't display without a shabby reset from a member of mIRC.net staff, and the coding was slow. Development of the site was taken over by one of the Administrators of the site, Wiggle, and many bugs were fixed and features implemented. Soon enough, Tye Shavik (aka 'Tye'), another Administrator, joined with the coding. He is now the primary developer of the website.
Since the recoding of the site, the site traffic has risen very rapidly. It peaked in March 2005, exceeding 6.3 million hits and 170,000 individual visits.
[edit] Disasters
mIRC.net has suffered in the past. Here's a list of some of the known problems it has experienced through its history:
- Site crashed in late 90s and lost all scripts that had been put on the site.
- The abandonment of the site by the main site coder, ethaniel, meant the site stayed in a buggy state for a reasonably long period of time.
- Several DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks have been made against the site, usually for reasons unknown. One of these DDoS attacks, which was also taken against mIRC.com, mIRCScripts.org and other mIRC-related websites, took the site offline for a number of weeks.
- During late September to mid December the site suffered a long downtime. Due to complications in the personal life of the person hosting the site, it went offline. Despite being promised several times that it would be back up soon the site did not reappear. These problems also affected the Undernet website. Another promise was made on the 13th December that the site's data would be emailed to magic that night. Undernet.org came back up, and then on the 18th December mIRC.net also returned.
[edit] Site Pros
Some of the reasons people choose to frequent mirc.net:
- Has tools that other mIRC-related sites don't offer, has a large archive of scripts and addons and offers usually friendly help on its forum.
- Has several themes to choose from and what is displayed on the front page of the site is completely customisable for any registered user.
- Regularly updated, either with site features/bug fixes, or with IRC news and additions to its archive.
- No popup ads, and very few unobtrusive banner ads (such as Google ads).
- Virus checks and reviews every single project that is put into its archives.
[edit] Site Cons
Some of the reasons people choose to stay away from mirc.net:
- Many regular users of the site do not speak very good English, considered "lame".
- Has hardly anything to do with MTS (mIRC Theme Standard), unlike mIRCScripts.org.
- Some sections of its archives are smaller than other websites, more specifically DLLs, Scripts and Miscellaneous section.
