Due to the events unconnected to us, IRC has shifted to irc.rustedlogic.net / irc.tcrf.net . Not much has changed, and we intend to keep it that way. We're still going to keep operating this place with the transparency and openness that we've been running for months now. Keep it classy, folks.
I figure I'll do a tiny bit of clarifying here. Without really getting into detail, the domain for irc.badnik.net was hijacked by one of the operators and now points to a different server. The old server still exists, and its canonical URL is now irc.badnik.zone. However, irc.rustedlogic.net and irc.tcrf.net will always be acceptable alternate URLs for the server, so if you've already changed addresses, you're fine and don't need to do it again. God, this has been such a headache.