Yep, Yuravian went ahead and registered one on irc.dal.net, cleverly called #megachan. While he considers is a ‘preliminary’ one, I don’t see why it can’t be the official one. So, until I state others. It shall be the official Megachan IRC channel 
Yesterday the MySQL database was taken offline temporarily by my host so it can be hardened - some dick was trying to be all cyberpunk and gain access to other databases on the server.
Anyway, I’ve been assured that the problem has been resolved, however there may be intermittent downtime to stop anymore problems.