Hey everyone!

aussies.space is changing, very soon. To get right to the point:

At the end of this month, shell access for aussies.space will be discontinued. This is due to incredibly limited use of the compute resources aussies.space has available & the maintenance burden they pose.

However, this is *not* the end of aussies.space. Some features will remain, in a slightly different form - this includes; IRC node; web pages; gopher pages; weechat access; mail server.

- IRC node: will move to irc.aussies.space, or you will be able to stay on au.tilde.chat - web pages & gopher pages: accessible via SFTP to modify, will remain on aussies.space main domain - weechat/other irc client access will be available on: yourname@ichat.aussies.space - to start off with, this is likely to be weechat only and will be expanded over time - mail server will move to: mail.aussies.space

aussies.space is reshaping into a more lean featureset with less maintenance burden, staying closer to the Australian latency + presence problem, rather than trying to provide compute/community resources/functions readily available on other, larger tildes.

Please email fosslinux if there are specific functions you will miss greatly, and I'll see what I can do.

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What you need to do/know:

At the end of this month, all users will receive a .tar.gz of their current homedir on the email they originally signed up with. Other methods of receipt can be given, if proof can be given that you own the account, such as ssh key.

You do not need to transfer IRC client configs, maildirs, webpages or gopher pages. These will all automatically be transferred over to the new system.

Snapshots will be taken in one week from today, the 28th of Jan (AEST time). You can expect most services to resume by the 31st of Jan (AEST time) at the latest.

Thank you for your support of aussies.space. I hope this change is understandable and is not overly disappointing.

~fosslinux