The IRC server that our channel is hosted on is having connection upkeep issue. It is having trouble keeping someone connected to the various servers that our host PSIGenix uses. So you can connect to it with relative ease, but it won't keep the connection for a long time for most users. This is something the server admins handle, we just sit and wait on it to get fixed.
In the mean time: go make threads and post in other ones.
or go outside, I mean, it is a nice day out