For many years me and Fiona have provided an IRC server with Ellesmera.dragonaerie.de. However, since about 6 years we have seen a steady decline in people visiting. Only spam bots found it then and when. We kept the service up, even when the network split occurred and when the chat moved to discord.
Nothing much happened there for the past 3 years, so today has been the day, I have finally switched off the IRC server. Ellesmera is no more.
It has been with us for a very long time.

On my quick morning news stroll before starting work, I came across this aweful and also good piece of news:

https://inews.co.uk/news/police-find-hundreds-frozen-edible-...

But how can anyone eat dormice? How is it even possible to debone them? It's really a good thing, that such aweful and blatant cases of crime against nature are still being worked on, it restores my faith in humanity somewhat.

I blog here again, because I hope someone can help us. Our friend who is know here under her nick crazypagangurl has gone missing. She suddenly didn't appear like she always did in our chat and when she missed the fridays D&D session, we started worring. That was 4 weeks ago. Since that time Dottie tried to call her numerous times, but only got to the answering machine.
We know her computer is online but that's about it. Unfortunately she doesn't live near anyone of us.

If anyone knows anything, please contact me or Dottie or Arwens Tears.

Saphira

Hi girls, high elves, dragon born and whatnot...

I'm really sorry about the end of yesterdays session. I didn't gave it the attention anymore that it deserved. I've been distracted by a very heated political argument with my partner. We've only had a few minutes left, but I still need to calculate XP and HP for everyone as well as creating the log. I'll try to make up for it next friday with another hopefully interesting round fighting the monk.

After all, this is only the beginning of uncovering one of the greatest mysteries of Fiddler's Vale.

Hello fellow adventurers,

those humans of the nevarious profession - if we want to call it so - the politicians, have bestowed upon us great confusion once again. First it have been daylight savings in America now the European continent was to follow down the road of stolen time and confused humanoid beings.

Until the day we finally will solve this matter, please be aware that we're starting an hour earlier again at 23:00 GMT.

Your caring DM

I just came across this cute short video of one of our favourite animals here at BCTS.

http://www.tierfreund.co/dormouse/?ref=fb

Unfortunately the text is in german, but it doesn't say much more than the video shows. I wonder however do they really not wake up when someone handles them?

Hello folks,

after lots of work, sweating and swearing, very long nights and lots of coffee and brainfood consumed by me and Melanie_T I can proudly announce the irc chat is back online.

At the moment we're still running the old software, but we will update to a newer more secure version in the next days.
We will also setup a second webchat, so everyone else without an irc client can log in, should BCTS having issues.

Hi guys,

unfortunately we do have a complete outage at the server hosting the mainroom chat. We're working as fast as we can to get it back up running again.

Please stay tuned.

As if the hate sprouting from Trump and his Trumpettes aren't enough now some ludicrous doctors are attacking transsexuals rights on base of religious 'freedom' and believes again:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/texas-leads-four-other...

Yes it is buzzfeed, but it is the best article I could find on that at the moment.

Hi people,

I've been informed that our chat wasn't availabe from here. So I decided to reactivate an old site some people long ago maintened and make the mainroom available again.

Please go to http://narda.tor-der-traeume.de/index.php?action=chat You'll be logged in as guest but you can choose your own name by typing /nick .

Please have fun and thank your site admins. After all today is the annual Sysadmin Appreciation Day :)

Hello everyone out there, this isn't less blog but more a question. I'm a very active woman and I'm missing doing any kind of sports. I'm in the fifth week since my OP now and I feel getting that itch more and more. I need to do some workout. I can't do the usual stuff I do, since those are sports which would not be advisable to do so soon after that surgery, like cycling, sports climbing, inline skating or diving.
But I also need to do some less strenous sports to get back into shape again and getting my fitness back. I can't just lounge around.

I'm officially Post-OP now. I had my SRS this morning and it went very well apparently. :)

Saphira

When I was told by friends about the number of responses I got and the support I received, I had to come and at least take a look.
I was overwhelmed by what I found here.

Hi folks,

well, today is a very happy day for me, so I thought I might share some news with you. First for the fans of the Gabyzone IRC channel on Cyberbrats Network - Fiona and me will moving the European hub to a less expensive and more powerful server. We're taking every precaution possible to avoid any service disruptions but... we can't guarantee for anything, so there might be short disruptions in service.

The other even better news is: The court in Potsdam decided about my name change application and from today on my name is official :) One of the best xmas gifts I ever had.

I know that blog is kinda old, but I'm really thankful someone did the work, and wrote and english article about the situation in Germany.

Hi folks,

having to live in Germany made me very frightened since some days. Germany is going to be an unlawful country it already has been in Nazi-times and that with obvious best intentions.

Garden News

Hi folks,

Things are developing at Hypatia's garden. Right now there is a discussion about ... well, you've already read the headline. So, if you're interested, please go to Hypatia's Garden

Hi folks,

I'm happy to tell you, the DNS issues from around lunchtime CET today are solved now. I also fixed a few mistakes at the forum software itself. I hope everything is now running smoothly.

Good news everyone...

Hi folks,

a few weeks ago Angharad posted a very interesting question about transsexual people and terrorists. Unfortunately that discussion was stopped very early. I guess it was to avoid any flaming which surely would have come soon.
But like I said, it would have been very interesting to discuss that matter a bit further. I came to the conclusion that this site might probably not the best place to persuade such a philosophical exchange.

If there is any interest in having such discussions in depth, I'd like to provide a forum for that.
There will be of course rules to avoid unneccessary flaming or even hatred.

Hi Gabyfans and other folks,

only a few of you might have noticed yet - Gabyzone.com is back! Not in it's full glory, but other then loosing the changes from February to May not much happend. So it's about time to regularly check for updates there too.

For anyone wondering what happened to cyberbrats chatnet, which is home to the gabyzone channel, please note there are only name service issues. Chatnet itself is still online and running. For anyone wanting to get in, please use 88.198.48.47. This is one of the european servers of CyberBrats Chatnet.