'Sup. This place seems intended to have a 'comfier', more tight-knit and positive atmosphere due to subscription being opt-out instead of opt-in and the whole two kinds of upvotes instead of a downvote thing, and I'm curious to find out how scalable such a system will be if/when this place grows larger.

I had a question about the built-in IRC functionality; I don't see any kind of IRC window on any page. Is this feature currently disabled site-wide?

Edit: a quick question about the voting system. I just noticed that I have a total of 6 comment karma, even though I've only received a total of 3 Insightful ratings on my comments as of time of edit. It looks like the part of Reddit where you automatically upvote your own comments is still in effect, and my own ratings of my comments are affecting my karma count. Is this intentional?