Topic in IRC:
DC failure, ETA unknown. Suggest backup pools for the time being.
Thanks for posting Biffa as anyone that is on IRC can see out of the 1000+ miners that are on the pool only a fraction get on IRC chat and it took all day until someone posted something here to the miners that chose not to use IRC chat.
Actually to be fair, there are probably more people on IRC constantly than have ever posted in this thread over the past few weeks. And people join/leave the IRC channel all the time. Its not like its a hidden way to get news/support, its there (or it was) on the page in the help menu.
In fairness I have not been on it at all in the last couple months but before that when I was on it I found it to be very inefficient. Unless s0br was on it you never could get a answer unless it was more of a technology question. I did a lot of lucking on it and it just wasn't for me and a lot of my questions went unanswered. Also it seemed I was lucky to see maybe 20-30 at any one time on there or at least logged in. I think you have a lot more lurkers here than you do on IRC chat but that is my opinion.
EDIT: It also seems its better to just post important information or news than hope for a hit and miss approach of the IRC chat.