I'm wondering the same exact thing. Some people are able to connect "According to RoboCop" He's connected. But as for me, Ryan Cook and now you, We can't connect, I've been trying all day to no avail.
Went as far as restarting my connection multiple times, Closing IRC and re-opening it and still nothing. So I am waiting on Byrner to see and respond to my facebook message I left him, I didn't let him know of the situation yet. All I asked was if he was around. So that then when he reply's I could let him know that a majority of us can't connect to IRC and some other's can. So you're not the only one this is happening to.
**UPDATE** Just talked to Saw on Facebook to see if he was experiencing the same issue and he is. He informed me that the entire service to our IRC is down. And NOBODY should have been able to connect, Not even RoboCop when I thought he said he was connected, Idk. Maybe I misinterpreted it or something but that's as far as I know. All we can do from this point is wait it out. I've been waiting all day and it's truthfully agonizing. I wanna get back online as much as anyone else would. So yeah
**UPDATE #2** If nobody's noticed yet. Services to IRC are now back online and you should be able to join. I tried updating this again last night but it wouldn't let me.